JK 2358 
.K29 
1890 
Copy 1 



»-■ 





Vf i>' 



V^ 




LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 



@^ajt........_ Soft^rigl^i T^tj,.. 



Shelf JM-Z2>ii% 



I UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



PROCEED I NQS 



TWEflTY-flHSlTH 



HEPUBiiiGflfi State GoiiVEpioi^ 



OF I^flfiSflS. 



Held in the Hall of Representatives, at Topeka, 
Wednesday, September 3, and Thursday, September 4, 1890. 



F*rice, 25 Cents. 



GKO. W. CRANK, 

TOPEKA, KANSAS. 
i8go. 



<i.^^JlM^-»^^^-^''^<- 






PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



TWENTY-NINTH 

Republican State Convention 

OF KANSAS. 



0-' o O 

■ o 



Held^ in the Hall of Representatives, at Topeka, 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, AND THURSDAY, SEPTEM- 
BER 4, 1890. 

^~ 



TOPEKA, KAN;%S: ' 
GEO. W. CRANE, PUBLISHER. 
I 890. 



■ V 



Copyright, 1890, by Geo. W. Crane. 



PUBLISHER'S NOTE. 



This is the first attempt to preserve in permanent form the proceedings of a 
political convention in Kansas, and it was undertaken and has been prosecuted 
under considerable difficulties. It is hoped, however, that a degree of success 
has been attained which will commend the work to the favor of ail interested, 
and set an example which will be improved upon in the future. For such short- 
comings as appear, indulgence must be asked, in consideration of the difficulty 
of recording the transactions of such a body, in session too short a time for a 
secretary or reporter to become acquainted, to any great extent, with the gentle- 
men taking part, and with more or less confusion prevailing at all times. The 
proceedings were reported throughout, and the whole compiled and arranged, by 
Mr. Alden S. Huling, of my office force. 

ToPEKA, October 1, 1890. GEO. W. CKANE. 



N 



REPUBLICAN TERRITORIAL AND STATE CONVENTIONS IN KANSAS. 



Republican party of Kansas organized at Osawatomie, May 18, 1859: Central 
Committee appointed. 

Second Convention — Lawrence, August 3, 1859: To nominate Delegate to 
Congress. 

Third — Topeka, October 12, 1859: To nominate Congressman and State 
ticket. 

Fourth — Lawrence, April 11, 1-860: To select delegates to National Conven- 
tion, and nominate Presidential Electors. 

Fifth — Topeka, May 22, 1861: To nominate Congressman. The State Com- 
mittee, in response to a petition, nominated a State ticket, October 16, 1861, 
and it was voted for at the ensuing election; but the votes were not counted by 
the State Board of Canvassers, as there were no vacancies to be filled. 

Sixth — Topekar, September 17, 1862: To nominate Congressman and State 
ticket. The State Committee, October 8, 1863, nominated a candidate for Chief 
Justice. 

Seventh — Topeka, April 21, 1864: Delegates to National Convention. 

Eighth — Topeka, September 8, 1864: Congressman, Presidential Electors, 
and State ticket. 

NintJi — Topeka, September 5, 1866 : Congressman and State ticket. 

Tenth — Topeka, March 25, 1868: Delegates to' National Convention. 

Eleventh — Topeka, September 9, 1868 : Congressman, Presidential Electors, 
and State ticket. ' 

Twelfth — Topeka, September 8, 1870: Congressman and State ticket. 

Thirteenth — Lawrence, February 21, 1872: Delegates to National Conven- 
tion. 

Fourteenth and Fifteenth — Topeka, September 4, 1872 : State ticket. Law- 
rence, September 4, 1872 : Congressman and Presidential Electors. 

Sixteenth — Topeka, August 26, 1874: State ticket. 

Seventeenth — Topeka, May 24, 1876: Delegates to National Convention. 

Eighteenth — Topeka, August 16, 1876: Presidential Electors, State ticket. 
The State Committee, October 2, 1877, made nominations for Chief Justice and 
Lieutenant Governor. 

Nineteenth — Topeka, August 28, 1878: State ticket. 

Twentieth — Topeka, March 31, 1880: Delegates to National Convention and 
Presidential Electors. 

Twenty-first — Topeka, September 1, 1880: State ticket. 

Twenty-second — Topeka, June 28, 1882: Four candidates for Congress, at 
Large. 

Twenty-third — Topeka, August 9, 1882: State ticket. 

(3) 



4 Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 

Twenty-fourth — Topeka, April 29, 1884, Delegates to National Convention, 
and Presidential Electors at Large. 

T\centy-fift?i — To^Q\idi, July 16, 1884: State ticket. 

Twenty-sixth — Topeka, July 7, 1886: State ticket. 

Twenty-seventh — Wichita, May 9, 1888: Delegates to National Convention 
and Presidential Electors at Large. 

Twenty-eighth— To^ek-d, July 25, 1888: State ticket. 



MUSIC AND DECORATIONS. 



Marshall's Topeka Band, in full force, occupied the northwest corner of 
Representative Hall during the sitting of the twenty-ninth Republican Stato 
Convention, and performed a number of selections at the opening of the pro- 
ceedings, and at Intervals during the session. 

A large equestrian portrait of Gen. Benjamin Harrison was placed in the 
rear of and above the presiding officer's station, and the front of the Chairman's 
and Clerk's desk were hung with trailing vines, and decorated with flowers, 
under the direction of Mrs. Wm. Higgins. Bouquets in vases upon the desks 
bore the cards of Mrs. B. F. Simpson and Mrs. E. J. Auter. 

Original and appropriate songs by the Coyote Club, of Larned, consisting of 
F. D. Taylor, W. C. Hilts, F. J. Mathias, J. G. Edwards and W. C. Edwards, 
enlivened and relieved the proceedings. 



ORGANIZATION OF STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 



The Republican State Central Committee for 1890 has established head- 
quarters at southwest corner of Kansas avenue and Ninth street, Topeka, and 
organized as follows: 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 

R. F. MooKE, Chairman, Butler county. 
W. J. BucHAN, Wyandotte county. 
J. H. Smith, Cherokee county. 

C. F. Johnson, Jefferson couuty. 
Fkank Danfokd, Ellis couuty. 
A. Reynolds, Chautauqua county. 
T. F. Garver, Saline couuty. 
Morton Albaugh, Kingman county. 

D. H. Johnson, Miami county. 
L. S. Sears, Clerk. 

Frank J. Guernsey, Stenographer. 

Note. — For full list of State Central Committee, see conclusion of proceedings. 



PROCKKDINOS 

OF THE 

Republican State Convention of Kansas, 

1890. 



Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1890. 

The twenty-ninth Republican State Convention of Kansas as- 
sembled in the Hall of Eepresentatiyes, at Topeka, on Wednes- 
day, September 3, 1890, and was called to order at 4:25 p. m., 
by Heney Booth, Chairman of the Republican State Central 
Committee. 

The deliberations of the Convention were opened with prayer 
by the Rev. M. F. McKirahan, pastor of the United Presby- 
terian Church, Topeka, as follows: 

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, we desire at the beginning of the ses- 
sions of this Convention to acknowledge Thy sovereignty over us, Thy kindness 
toward us, and Thy claims upon us. We thank Thee for the good measure of 
prosperity which Thou hast vouchsafed to this our beloved State, for our ma- 
terial and moral progress and prosperity, and for the general welfare of the 
people. We thank Thee that Thou hast heard the prayers of our people, and 
hast so signally' blessed them. We now ask Thy blessing upon our Nation, Its 
President, and all in authority over us. We ask Thy blessing upon our Gover- 
nor and all over us in the State. We ask Thy blessing upon our State institu- 
tions, especially upon our charitable institutions. Bless the poor, the afflicted, 
the unfortunate, among us. Eelieve the distressed, provide for the needy, help 
the afflicted. Help us all to appreciate our privileges, and perform our duties. 
Bless this Convention In all its deliberations and conclusions, and grant that 
what is done here may be for the best interests of all the people, and the glory 
of Thy name, for the Redeemer's sake. Amen. 

The Chair directed the Secretary of the State Central Com- 
mittee to read the call under which the Convention assembled, 
and it was read by Bion S. Hutchins, Secretary, as follows: 

A delegate convention of the Republicans of Kansas will be held in the city 
of Topeka, on Wednesday, the third day of September, 1890, at the hour of 4 
o'clock p. M., for the nomination of candidates for Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of State, 
Treasurer of State, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

Delegates to the Convention mentioned above shall be elected by county 
conventions duly called by the several County Republican Committees, under 
such rules and regulations as may be by them prescribed. The basis of appor- 
tionment of delegates to said State Convention will be one delegate at large 
for each county of the State, and one delegate for every 400 votes or fraction of 



Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 



200 or more votes cast for Eugene F. Wake for Elector at Large, in the elec- 
tion of 1888; under which rule delegates are apportioned to the several counties 
as follows: 



Counties. Delegates. 

Allen 6 

Anderson 6 

Atchison 9 

Barber 3 

Barton 4 

Bourbon 10 

Brown 8 

Butler 8 

Chase 4 

Chautauqua 5 

Cherokee 8 

Cheyenne 3 

Clark 2 

Clay 6 

Cloud 7 

Coffey 6 

Comanche 2 

Cowley 11 

Crawford 9 

Decatur 4 

Dickinson 8 

Doniphan 7 

Douglas 9 

Edwards 2 

Elk 5 

Ellis 3 

Ellsworth 4 

Finney 3 

Ford 3 

Franklin 7 

Garfield 2 

Geary 4 

Grant 2 

Gove 2 

Graham 3 

Gray 2 

Greenwood 7 

Greeley 2 

Hamilton 2 

Harper 5 

Harvey 6 

Haskell 2 

Hodgeman 2 

Jackson 6 

Jefferson 7 

Jewell 7 

Johnson 6 

Kearny 2 

Kingman 5 

Kiowa 2 

Labette 8 

Lane 2 

Leavenworth 9 

Lincoln 4 



Counties. Delegates. 

Linn , 6 

Logan 3 

Lyon 9 

Marion 7 

Marshall 7 

McPherson 7 

Meade 2 

Miami & 

Mitchell 5 

Montgomery 8 

Morris 5^ 

Morton a 

Nemaha 7 

Neosho 6- 

Ness 3 

Norton 5 

Osage 10 

Osborne 5 

Ottawa 5 

Pawnee S 

Phillips 5 

Pottawatomie 7 

Pratt 4 

Rawlins 4 

Reno 9 

Republic T 

Rice 6 

Riley & 

Rooks 4 

Rush 5 

Russell 3 

Saline 7 

Scott 2 

Sedgwick 16 

Seward 2 

Shawnee 20 

Sheridan 3 

Sherman a 

Smith 5 

Stafford a 

Stanton 2^ 

Stevens 2 

Sumner 10 

Thomas 3 

Trego 2 

Wabaunsee 5 

Wallace % 

Washington 9 

Wichita a 

Wilson 6 

Woodson 4 

Wyandotte 15 



Total. 



564 



Twenty^inth Bepublican State Convention. 7 

The Secretaries of the several county conventions are instructed to forward 
to the undersigned Secretary, at Topeka, Kansas, a certified copy of the cre- 
dentials of their several delegates, immediately upon the adjournment of the 
county conventions, said credentials to be received at Topeka not later than tiie 
evening of September 2d. From these credentials the Republican State Cen- 
tral Committee will prepare a roster of those entitled to participate in the pre- 
liminary organization of the convention. 

By order of the committee: 
BioN S. HuTCHiNS, Henry Booth, 

Secretary. Chairman. 

The Chair then announced that, as per the provisions of the 
call, the State Central Committee had prepared an official ros- 
ter, which would be read by the Secretary. If there were any 
corrections to be made, delegates could rise in their places and 
announce them. 

When Cheyenne county was reached, a delegate moved that 
the Secretary suspend the reading of the names of the dele- 
gates, and call the name of the county, with the number of dele- 
gates to which it is entitled. 

Agreed to. 

At the conclusion of the reading of the roll: 

The Chair : Are there any other corrections ? ( After a pause ) This is the 
official corrected roll, without a contest from any county except Morris county. 

A delegate from Stafford county moved the appointment of 

a Committee on Credentials. 

The Chair : The Chair will state for the benefit of the gentleman from Staf- 
ford county, that one object in making this official roll was to avoid the neces- 
sity for a Committee on Credentials. It would take too long a time to examine 
the credentials of the 564 delegates entitled to seats here. If there are no con- 
tests, the adoption of this official roll does away with the necessity of any 
Committee on Credentials. If the Convention so desires, there need be no Com- 
mittee on Credentials, except to consider these two cases. 

A delegate from Neosho moved that the roll as corrected be 

the official roll, except as to Stafford county and Morris county. 

Agreed to. 

The official corrected roll of delegates is as follows: 

ALLEN COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

T. S. Stover lola. Chas. Nelson Savonburgh. 

James Wakefield Humboldt. J. W. Wise Wise. 

H. B. Adams Moran. Chas. L. Knowlton ...Geneva. 



8 Twenty^iinth Repvhlican State Convention. 

ANDERSON COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

John A. Rankin Garnett. James Knight Haskell. 

T. J. Caldwell Harris. J. P. Moore Welda. 

J. A. Hargrave Garnett. J. E. Calvert Greeley. 

ATCHISON COUNTY. — NINE DELEGATES. 

W. R. Smith Atchison. L. F. Randolph Pardee. 

G. H. T. Johnson Atchison. L. R. Spangler Muscotah. 

David Baker Atchison. B. F. Wallack Effingham. 

H. M. G. Spencer Atchison. Fred Hartman Parnell. 

James M. Chisam Atchison. 

BAEBER COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

John McGregor Medicine Lodge. C. H. Eldred Medicine Lodge. 

James Stranathan Kiowa. 

BARTON COUNTY. — FOUR DELEGATES. 

A. D. Butler Galatia. John W. Howard Hoisington. 

Ira F. Clark Hoisington. A. W. Ward Great Bend. 

BOURBON COUNTY. — TEN DELEGATES. 

W. J. Bawden Ft. Scott. R. Haney Devon. 

A. Cleal Fulton. B. H. Goodno Bronson. 

J. H. Crider Ft. Scott. Henry Hall Ft. Scott. 

J. Brenner Porterville. A. J. Tanner Mapleton. 

R. S. Gilfillan...' Gilfillau. L N. Ury Ft. Scott. 

BROWN COUNTY. — EIGHT DELEGATES. 

!3. H. Johnson Hiawatha. Thos. C. Honnell Everest. 

L S. Griswold Hiawatha. J. W. Leibengood.... Hiawatha. 

Jesse Holt Baker. H. P. Grinstead Morrill. 

Wm. R. Honnell Horton. 

BUTLER COUNTY. — NINE DELEGATES. 

H.D.Hill Augusta. R.F.Moore Benton. 

F. W. Rash Douglass. C. R. Noe Leon. 

S. E. Black El Dorado. J. M. Satterthwaite... Douglass. 

Chas. Moore Benton. W. A. Shannon Augusta. 

W. S. Geisey Douglass. 

CHASE COUNTY. — FOUR DELEGATES. 

W. G. Morgan Strong City. C. L Maule Strong City. 

J. W. McWilliams Cottonwood Falls. W. M. Tomlinson....Elmdale. 

CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

J. A. Constant Cedarvale. Herbert Millert. .'.... Niotaze. 

Adrian Reynolds Sedan. A. W. Finley Farmersburg. 

H. J. Hendricks Elgin. 

CHEROKEE COUNTY. — EIGHT DELEGATES. 

J. C. Atkinson Columbus. J. P. Hartley Baxter Springs. 

J. E. Brickous Baxter Springs. W. S. Norton Scammonville. 

W. R. Cowley Columbus. L. M. Pickering Columbus. 

C. W. Daniels Baxter Springs. J. P. Scoles Galena. 



Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 

CHEYENNE COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

J. 0. Catlett Lawn Ridge. Geo. W. Murray Bird City. 

A. M. Breuemau St. Francis. 

CLARK COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. ^ 

Ben. E. Page Ashland. B. B. Bush Ashland. 

CLAY COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

F. B. Dawes Clay Center. John A. Pogue Bala, Riley Co. 

Bion S. Hutchins Clay Center. Burt Foote Clay Center. 

T. 0. Root Morganville. Theo. Ingersoll Broughtou. 

CLOUD COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES. 

D. B. Moore Jamestown. E. E. Swearngin Concordia. 

J. H. Brierly Glasco. W. S. Scott Concordia. 

W. S. Crump .Clyde. C. W. McDonald Concordia. 

A. B. Fry Miltonvale. 

COFFEY COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

T. N. Bell Burlington. F. S. Mauck Strawn. 

J.W.Hammond Waverly. Stephen Ogdeu Lebo. 

J. H. Hauna Halls Summit. John M. Quiggle LeRoy. 

COMANCHE COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

J. B. Kirkland Coldwater. W. D. Weller Coldwater. 

COWLEY COUNTY. — : ELEVEN DELEGATES. 

T. W. Eckert Arkansas City. P. W. Smith Winfield. 

F. W. Miller Arkansas City. E. D. Buck Winfield. 

J. D. Guthrie Arkansas City. Wm. Stiff Maple City. 

C. R. Mitchell Geuda Springs. H. R. Branson Dexter. 

James McLain ....Winfield. John Parsons Burden. 

A. Q. Thompson Rock. 

CRAWFORD COUNTY. — NINE DELEGATES. 

Geo. W. Pye Cherokee. John R. Lindburg... Pittsburg. 

M. C. Kelley Mulberry Grove. Frank Robb Girard. 

Geo. E. Cole Girard. Ed. Van Gundy Pittsburg. 

P. P. Campbell Pittsburg. Oscar Schaeffer Girard. 

John M. Goff Walnut. 

DECATUR COUNTY. — FOUR DELEGATES. 

C. Borin Oberlin. W. T. S. May Oberlin. 

C. E. Chandler.... Oberlin. A. P. Coppage Norcatur. 

DICKINSON COUNTY. — EIGHT DELEGATES. 

R. Waring Abilene. W. McK. Merrifield.. Abilene. 

A. M. Crary Herington. P. L. Jennings Chapman. 

J. S. Hollinger Chapman. T. E. Dewey.... Abilene. 

M. H. Bert Abilene. J. A. Hopkins ....Solomon City. 

DONIPHAN COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES. 

C. Leland, jr Troy. J. B. Gibson Troy. 

Phil. Kelley White Cloud. J. S. Long Severance. 

Sol. Miller Troy. F. H. Drenning Wathena. 

S. L.Ryan Severance. 



10 Twenty-ninth Bepvhlican State Convention. 

DOTJGLAS COUNTY. — NINE DELEGATES. 

J. L. Bristow Lawrence. Geo. Haas Willow Springs. 

J. M. Newlin.. Lawrence. C. C. James Lawrence. 

A. L. Co5^ Lawrence. J. H. Pierson Lawrence. 

F. W. Read Lawrence. W. C. Spangler ..Lawrence. 

Wm. Black Baldwin City. 

EDWARDS COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

H. F. Best Kinsley. E. P. Ott Kinsley. 

ELK COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

Tom. C. Copeland Longton. Gust, Anderson Busby. 

Geo. C. Armstrong ...Moline. Thos. P. Hawkins.. ..Grenola. 

Marion H. Robinson.. Fall River. 

ELLIS COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

Frank Danford Hays City. C. J. Bascom Ellis. 

Barney Martin Martin. 

ELLSWORTH COUNTY. — FOUR DELEGATES. 

F. B. Gordenier Ellsworth. A. N. McLennan Ellsworth. 

R. T. Leavitt Wilson. S. H. Thomas Ellsworth. 

FINNEY COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

J. A. Patton Garden City. G. L. Miller Garden City. 

A. Sabin Garden City. 

FORD COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

J. M. Burson Ford. L. Sims Dodge City. 

John Groendyke....... Dodge City. 

FRANKLIN COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES. 

George T. Anthony... Ottawa. Wm. Shiras Ottawa. 

T. D. Grimes ...Ottawa. J. W. Brinkerhoff ...Pomona. 

A. Franklin Ottawa. J. M. Mechem ...Norwood. 

Geo. Washburn Ottawa. 

GARFIELD COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

0. W. Crow Ravanna. G. M. Goff Ravanna. 

GEARY COUNTY. — FOUR DELEGATES. 

G. F. Little Junction City. C. B. Stebbins Junction City. 

W. C. Moore Junction City. A. B. Spessard Junction City. 

GRANT COUNTY.. — TWO DELEGATES. 

H. E. Evans Ulysses. Geo. W. Perry Ulysses. 

GOVE COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES*. 

R. C. Bohn Gove City. L T. Purcell Grainfield. 

GRAHAM COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

James Justis.. Hill City. J. R. Hawkins Hill City. 

J. H. Heaton Millbrook. 

GRAY COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

N. B. Klaine Cimarron. J. W. Brokaw Montezuma. 



Twenty-ninth Mepuhliccm State Convention.- 11 

GREELEY COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

W. M. Glenn Tribune. F. S. White Horace. 

GREENWOOD COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES. 

A.Baker Toronto. J. F. Hoffman Eureka. 

D. Baughman Lamont. E. Mahan. .Hiawatha. 

D. B. Fuller Eureka. C. W. Keich Eureka. 

Ed. L. Gould. Star. 

HAMILTON COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

W. H. Olmstead Syracuse. M. C. Boggs Coolidge. 

HARPER COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

S. W. Anderson Attica. R. P. Ray Harper. 

J. W. Glidewell Ruella. F. R. Zacharias ......Harper. 

R. P. McCulloch Anthony. 

HARVEY COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

Albert L. Johnston... Newton. J.A.Welsh Burrton. 

John E. Frazier Halstead. William McDowell... Newton. 

Glenn Woods Walton. J. H. McNair Halstead. 

HASKELL COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

W. H. Hussey.... Santa F^. J. J. Miller Santa F^. 

HODGEMAN COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

T. S. Haun Jetmore. P. N. Zahuer ..Marena. 

JACKSON COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

A. Plum Circleville. W. Parmenter .♦.Holton. 

J. W. Pettijohn Hoyt. J. E. Hoagland....... Whiting. 

L. P. Paddock Netawaka. J.H.Johnson Holton. 

JEFFERSON COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES- 

A.Stone .«. Williamstown. Joseph Haynes .Newman. 

Ben. Wellman Osawkie. R. K. McCartney Valley Falls. 

J. M. Kios Meriden. E. U. Bond McLouth. 

Frank Stark Perry. 

JEWELL COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES. 

W.D.Cook Salem. R. U. Malleroy ..Ezbon. 

IraF. Hodson Burr Oak. Thos. Shuler LovewelU 

A. L. Marks Jewell City. John Young Formosa, 

D. J. Yance Mankato. 

JOHNSON COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

J.B.Armstrong Gardner. F. R. Lanter Olathe. 

J. W. Crooks Morse. F. R. Ogg ..Olathe. 

L. W. Breyfogle Lenexa. C. W. Marston .Cedar Junction. 

KEARNY COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. . 

Ed. P.Williams Hartland. E. W. Keep Hartland. 

KINGMAN COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

F. E. Gillett Kingman. T.A.Russell Belmont 

Harry Gillen ..Kingman. M.F.Young, New Murdock. 

Simon Leist Nashville. 



12 Twenty -ninth Republican State Convention, 

KIOWA COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

Will. Henderson Greensburg. Will. McCord Greensburg. 

LABETTE COUNTY. — EIGHT DELEGATES. 

G. W. Hawk Parsons. J. H. Morrison Oswego. 

I. W. French Parsons. W. F. Thrall Mound Yalley. 

W. W. Cranston Parsons. J. H. Crichton Chetopa. 

L. S. Crum Oswego. S. Hileman Edna. 

LANE COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

y. H. Grinstead Dighton. C. E. Lobdell Dighton. 

LEAVENWORTH COUNTY. — NINE DELEGATES. 

J. J. Baker Linwood. D. E. Mundy Linwood. 

James Hardin Leavenworth. W. B. Townsend Leavenworth. 

Arthur Folger Leavenworth. L. L. Terwilliger Lansing. 

E. G. Krezdorn Leavenworth. J. S. VanWinkle Pleasant Ridge. 

Wm. Hymen Tonganoxie. 

LINCOLN COUNTY. — FOUB DELEGATES. 

Frank Petrie Beverly. W. W. Evans Barnard. 

Grant Crawford Lincoln. P. J. Hellar Sylvan Grove. 

LINN COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

K. W. Blue Pleasanton. A. J. Jackson Prescott. 

J. y. Donaldson La Cygne. Robert Kincaid Mound City. 

F. P. Dobyns Farlinville. James Tyson Goodrich. 

LOGAN COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

J. K. Hupp Russell Springs. K. E. Wilcockson.... Oakley. 

A. C. Sims Winona. 

LYON COUNTY. — NINE DELEGATES. 

F. M. Chaffee Wyckoff. W. H. Mapes .Bitler. 

D. W. Eastman Emporia. J. B. Moon Emporia. 

A. Hurlburt Emporia. B. Owen Emporia. 

A. E. Jaquith Americus. J.H.Ray Bitler. 

M. W. Stratton Reading. 

MARION COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES. 

J. N. Currens Peabody. M. A. Jordan Peabody. 

M. H. Dawson Peabody. G. H. Rood Peabody. 

F. L. Frazer Marion. Thos. Morrison Florence. 

O. Jolliffe Peabody. 

MARSHALL COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES. 

A. E. Parks Marysville. Frank Thompson... Irving. 

M. A. Brawley Frankfort. C. L. Burtis Waterville. 

A. W. Kirkwood Marysville. Dr. Curtis Frankfort. 

R. S. Craft Blue Rapids City. 

M'PHERSON COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES. 

J. D. Milliken McPherson. Jeff. Tourney McPherson. 

S. G. Mead McPherson. Eben Carlson Lindsborg. 

Aug. Ringwald Lindsborg. E. C. Tyler Canton. 

C. C. Wedel Mound Ridge. 



Twenty^inth Republican State Convention. 13 

MEADE COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

W. F. Casteen Meade. C. S. Rockey Meade. 

MIAIvn COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

J. M. Bryan Paola. D. H. Johnson Paola. 

J. M. BeBall Paola. J. B. Remington Osawatomie. 

W. M. Fleharty La Cygne. Dennis Shepherd.... Paola. 

MITCHELL COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

A. H. Ellis Beloit. I. D. Young Beloit. 

B. R. Glidden Scottsville. Ira Foote Simpson. 

Y. H. Branch Cawker City. 

MONTGOMERY COUNTY. — EIGHT DELEGATES. 

J. P. Spencer Independence. R. B. Handley Cherryvale 

J. A. Moore Havana. O. F. Carson Cherryvale 

S. H. Piper Elk City. D. C. Krone Lay. 

E. P. Todd Cherryvale. D. McTaggart Liberty. 

MORRIS COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

J. N. Barber Council Grove. D. S. McClain Dwight. 

J. W. Evans Wilsey. J. B. Showers Dunlap. 

M. L. Kennedy White City. 

MORTON COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

D. H. Gilson.- Yiroqua. W. L. Walker Richfield. 

NEMAHA COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES, 

J. E. Corwin Sabetha. G. W. Myrick Capioma. 

C. C. K. Scoville Seneca. Ira F. Collins Sabetha. 

R. M. Emery Seneca. C. W. Hunt Corning. 

W.J. Bailey Baileyville. 

NEOSHO COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

R. N. Allen Chanute. , E. J. Kenney Osage Mission. 

J. M. Allen Erie. D. M. Kennedy Chanute. 

J. H. Fisher Chanute. W. P. Hazen Erie. 

NESS COUNTY. — THItEE DELEGATES. 

C. P. Lynn Ness City. R. 0. Elting Kansada. 

J. M. Nuttle Utica. 

NORTON COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

Amos Butler Clayton. O. A. Fuller Almena. 

R. E. White Clayton. J. C. Cornell... Edmond. 

Hugh McCredie Clayton. 

OSAGE COUNTY. — TEN DELEGATES. 

W. W. Miller Osage City. H. A. Sheldon Burlingame. 

H. C. Gates Fairfax. L. E. Finch Burlingame. 

Levi Ford ." Burlingame. • C. S. Briggs Carbondale. 

J. A. McNabb Olivet. R. A. Miller Lyndon. 

J. C. Rankin Quenemo. 



14 Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 

OSBORNE COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

J. W. Huff... Downs. O. H. Gregory Mt. Ayr. 

Wm. Braden Alton. P. H. Kenyon Corinth. 

€. W. Landis Osborne. 

OTTAWA COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

A. P. Kiddle Minneapolis. L W. Lyons Minneapolis. 

Chas. Shultice Verdi. Geo. Mackenzie Minneapolis. 

W. W. Walker Minneapolis. 

PAWNEE COUNTY. — THKEE DELEGATES. 

W. C. Hilts Lamed. J. F. Whitney Larned. 

W. P. Peter Larned. 

PHILLIPS COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

J. M. McNay Phillipsburg. C. W. Hull Kirwin. 

W. H. Martin Kirwin. W. A, Keeder Logan. 

Chas. 0. Wileox Long Island. 

POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES. 

A. H. Knecht Louisville. E. Nason Springside. 

J. A. Johnson.... Randolph. James McCallister... Myers Valley. 

G. F. Anderson .........St. Marys. Dan. Brown Onaga. 

S. Fee Wamego. 

PRATT COUNTY. — FOUR DELEGATES. 

J. Q. A. Shives luka. C. F. Warren Pratt. 

C. DeHart Coats. R. Q. Whitman Pratt. 

RAWLINS COUNTY. — FOUR DELEGATES. 

F. D. Hensley Atwood. J. V. Cooper Atwood. 

J. R. Sedgwick......... McDonald. W. F. Heiuaman Atwood. 

RENO COUNTY. — NINE DELEGATES. 

<jeorge Avery Avery. T. T. Taylor Hutchinson. 

R. M. Easley ..Hutchinson. E. S. Handy Hutchinson. 

E. W. Elliott Nickerson. Eli Payne Hutchinson. 

J. E. Eaton Arlington. H. C. Core Hutchinson. 

H. W. Gleason Hutchinson. 

REPUBLIC COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES. 

J. F. Close Belleville. Thos. Arbuthnot Cuba. 

W. H. Pilkenton Belleville. Gomer T. Davies Republic City. 

J, F. Stutesman Belleville. A. D. Wilson Scandia. 

J. W. Shackleford Belleville. 

RICE COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

R. F. Bond Sterling. Dave Birney Chase. 

Clark Conkling Lyons. J. H. Ricksecker Sterling. 

Geo. DeWeese Sterling. J. W. Lane Little River. 

RILEY COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

E. B. Purcell Manhattan. Robert J. Huey Ogden. 

J. W. Blachly Leouardville. William Gordon...... Bala. 

Lewis Laflin Leonardville. William Burgoyne... Manhattan. 



Twenty-ninth Bepuhlican State Convention, 15 

BOOKS COUNTY. — FOUR DELEGATES. 

Albert Teele Stockton. Geo. Benedick Plainville. 

E. F. Randall Stockton. S. I. Cleveland Zurich. 

EUSH COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

J. W. Edwards La Crosse. A. C. Lippert La Crosse.] 

Frank Smith La Crosse. 

RUSSELL COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

O. L. Atherton Russell. C. H. Kellogg Russell. 

C. M, Harshbarger.... Lucas. 

SALINE COUNTY. — SEVEN DELEGATES. 

P. Q. Bond Salina. R. B. Ingraham Brookville. 

N. F. Ethel Salina. J. W. Willis Gypsum City. 

T. F. Garver Salina. W. A. Murphey New Cambria. 

J. A." Lackey Falun. 

SCOTT COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

L. L. Bingaman Scott City. W. A. Thomson Scott City. 

SEDGWICK COUNTY. — SIXTEEN DELEGATES. 

0. H. Bentley Wichita. Stephen Johns Mt. Hope. 

Dwight Beach Valley Center. M. M. Murdock Wichita. 

Newt. Bridgeman Minneha. J.H.Mercer Wichita. 

Emmett Callahan Wichita. A. W. Oliver Wichita. 

H. L. Gordon Wichita. C. E. Peairs Anness. 

Thomas Glover Wichita. T. N. Tricky Mulvane. 

A. T. Green Waco. F. J. Zeller Cheney. 

H. D. Heiserman Wichita. R. D. Seaman Wichita. 

N, SEWARD COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

C. Coomer Liberal. J. F. Van Yoorhis... Springfield. 

SHAAVNEE COUNTY. — TWENTY DELEGATES. 

Chas. Curtis North Topeka. J. B. McAfee Topeka. 

M. T. Campbell North Topeka. W. E. Sterne Topeka. 

W. H. Cheney North Topeka. A. C. Sherman Rossville. 

G. H. Evans Topeka. F. M. Stahl Auburn. 

A. M. Fuller Topeka. Cary Snyder..... Dover. 

R. U. Farnsworth Richland. A. K. Rodgers .Topeka. 

J. K. Hudson Topeka. E. B. Whaley Topeka. 

Edward Hawes Topeka. James Ramsey Topeka. 

Peter Heil Vidette. B. F. Van Horn North Topeka. 

H. Lieurance Tecumseh. S. G. Watkins Topeka. 

SHERIDAN COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

M. A. Chambers Hoxie. M. F. Vandi ver Selden. 

H. M. Worley Hoxie. 

SHERMAN COUNTY. 7— THREE DELEGATES. 

John E. Bagley Goodland. H..E. Don Carlos.....Goodland. 

W. F. Federman Goodland. 



16 Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 

SMITH COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

Lair Dean Cora. L. V. Morton Lebanon. 

W. K. Bennett Jacksonburg. C. E. McNall Lebanon. 

J. S. McDowell Smith Center. 

STAFFORD COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

T. F. Halveson Stafford. C. D. Shrader Stafford. 

L. McFadden Stafford. Geo. W. C. Shutter. . .St. John. 

SfANTON COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

J. A. Webster Johnson City. D. P. Morrison Falkenstein. 

STEVENS COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

L. J. Pettijohn Hugoton. Theo. Botkin Springfield. 

SUMNER COUNTY. — TEN DELEGATES. 

W. M. Massey Oxford. R. F. Nugent Milan. 

J. W. Haughey Wellington. A. T. Ball Caldwell. 

G. W. Bailey Wellington. R. T. Simons Caldwell. 

S. Dixon Argonia. Will T. Walker Wellington. 

CM. Keiger.. Conway Springs. J. C. Thomson ..Wellington. 

THOMAS COUNTY. — THREE DELEGATES. 

W. S. Willcoxon Colby. M. L. Lacey Colby. 

Thomas Huey Colby. 

TREGO COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

Edward Griffith Ellis. George Baker. Wakeeney. 

AVABAUNSEE COUNTY. — FIVE DELEGATES. 

J. W. Core Eskridge. George Younker Eskridge. 

T. M. Benedict Wabaunsee. James Carroll Alma. 

W. B. Small Maple Hill. 

WALLACE COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

W. O. Meier Sharon Springs. A. T. Quick Sharon Springs. 

WASHINGTON COUNTY. — NINE DELEGATES. 

B. T. Spradling Greenleaf. M. 0. Reitzel Barnes. 

J. B. Besack Washington. E. G. Whetstine Washington. 

S. H. Hamilton Washington. S. B. Percival Haddam. 

A. H. Scott Chepstow. G. M. Parks Washington.] 

J. A. Branson Clifton. 

WICHITA COUNTY. — TWO DELEGATES. 

H. A. Piatt Le.oti. Chas. S. Triplett Leoti. 

WILSON COUNTY. — SIX DELEGATES. 

J. T. Cooper Coyville. J. G. Beasley Fredonia. 

S. S. Kirkpatrick Fredonia. R.N. Richardson.... Altoona. 

A. J. Mannen Fredonia. Adolph Bauman Neodesha. 

WOODSON COUNTY. — FOUR DELEGATES. 

O. S. Woodyard Neosho Falls. D. Phillips Yates Center. 

J. B. Prutzman Veruon. J. J. Puckett Middletown. 



Twenty-ninth Bepublican State Convention, 17 

WYANDOTTE COUNTY. — FIFTEEN DELEGATES. 

W. H. Bridgens Kansas City, Kas. W. L. McKiuney Kansas City, Kas. 

Philo M. Clark Bonner Springs. Isaac P. Moore Quindaro. 

H. M. Downs Kansas City, Kas. Corvin Patterson Kansas City, Kas. 

A. Flicl?:....; Kansas City, Kas. T. C. Kussell Kansas City, Kas. 

K. W. Hilliker. Kansas City, Kas. B. L. Stine Rosedale. 

W. F. Jaquith Kansas City, Kas. J. H. Work Kansas City, Kas. 

J. M. Asher Argentine. G. W. Toottiaker Rosedale. 

J. W. Moore Kansas City, Kas. 

Mr. L. E. Finch, of Osage county: I desire to place before this Convention, 
as its Temporary Chairman, W. R. Smith, of Atchison county. 

Mr. T. F. Garver, of Saline county: At the request of many delegates of 
this Convention, I desire to place before this Convention, for Tenlporary Chair- 
man, the name of a gentleman who has distinguished, himself among young 
Republicans. That the delegates may have a choice, I name for Temporary 
Chairman F. B. Dawes, of OJay county. 

Mr. Geo. T. Anthony, of Franklin county: I move you, sir, that the roll of 
counties be called, and that the chairman of each delegation rise and announce 
the vote. 

Agreed to. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: Before we proceed to a vote for Tempo- 
rary Chairman, I move that the delegates present from each county be permit- 
ted to cast the vote of the full delegations. 

Agreed to, by unanimous consent. 

On motion, T. F. Halveson, of Stafford county, was made 
Assistant SeWetary ^9^(9 tem. 

The Secretary announced the result of the vote as follows: 
For Mr. Smith, 412. • 

For Mr. Dawes, 145. 

The Chair appointed as a committee to escort Mr. Smith to 
the Speaker's desk: R. W. Hillikek, of Wyandotte; J. K. 
Hudson, of Shawnee; T. F. Garver, of Saline. 

The Chair presented Mr. Smith, who, at the conclusion of 
the applause with which he was greeted, addressed the Conven- 
tion as follows: 
Oentlemen of the Convention: 

I am profoundly sensible of the distinguished compliment which you have 
paid me, by this call from the ranks to preside temporarily over the delibera- 
tions of this great Convention, composed of intelligent and patriotic Republi- 
cans, who have come here in a spirit of harmony to nominate candidates and to 
proclaim a platform which will do honor to this great State, which but a short 
— 2 



18 Twenty-ninth JRepublican State Convention. 

time ago cast 82,000 majoritj'^ for Benjamin Haerisox (applause) aud the 
eternal principles of the Republican partj^ cherished and maintained by Abra- 
ham Lincoln (applause), James A. Garfield and Ulysses S. Grant — 
principles which, next to the principles of the Christian religion, have done 
more to benefit and ennoble the human race than anything of which the world 
has ever known. (Long and loud applause.) 

I know that it is a pleasure and satisfaction to the people of this great State 
to again be afforded an opportunity to do honor to the chief magistrate of this 
commonwealth, who, like a true soldier, so nobly led us through the last politi- 
cal conflict, and, emerging from the smoke and confusion of the fight, planted 
our banner in triumph at the very apex of the Republican column of States, 
where it now floats, the pride and glory of the party throughout the Nation. 

We shall be,met again by our ancient enemy, the Democracy; but I have not 
been advised that it has any new, strange or startling revelations to make, which 
will benefit the people. It is a matter of surprise that this party has not long 
since confessed that its stale claims upon the votes of the people were barred 
by the statute of limitations. ( Laughter and applause. ) 

And again, we will be confronted by a new and untried party, full of wild 
and chimerical schemes of legislation in the alleged interests of the people. 
The hostility of this party to our own will be aggravated and inflamed by the 
hot breath of the demagogue, that can only be compared to the blasting winds 
of summer, which have no mission in this world but to shrivel up and destroy 
the kindly fruits of the earth. 

We are here to reaffirm our allegiance to the Republican party; to say again 
to the American working man that he should be protected in the dignity of his 
toil; to applaud the efforts of Kansas' favorite statesman, James G. Blaine 
( applause ), in his endeavors to revive our trade with the South American coun- 
tries, and to wrest it from the monarchical countries of Europe; to say to 
Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the House of Representatives, "You are a hero! 
and we have viewed with satisfaction the lesson you have taught to nullifiers 
and obstructionists, to the effect that the Rebellion closed in 1865;" to say to 
the veterans of the late war, "You can have anything you want." (Applause.) 

Now, gentlemen, I will no longer occupy your time. This is a business 
meeting. What is your further pleasure? 

It was moved that T. F. Halveson, of Stafford county, and 
J. E. HoAGLAND, of Jackson county, be Temporary Secretaries 
of the Convention. 

Agreed to. 

Mr. J. K. Hudson, of Shawnee county, moved that the Chair 

appoint a Committee on Resolutions, to consist of one member 

from each Judicial District. 

Mr. E. B. Buck, of Cowley county: I think the committee is too large. I 
understand the resolutions are already written and prepared. I move, as a sub- 



Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 19 

stitute, that the committee consist of one from each Congressional District. I 
think this will be enough to ratify the resolutions. 

The question was put, on the adoption of the substitute, and 
it was lost. 

The original motion was then agreed to. 

Mr. A. H. Ellis, of Mitchell county, moved the appointment 
of a Committee on Permanent Organization, to consist of fifteen 
members. 

Agreed to. 

A delegate from Greeley county moved the appointment of 
a Committee on Rules and Order of Business, to consist of one 
from each Congressional District. 

Mr. L. E. Finch, of Osage county, moved to amend, that the 
committee consist of fifteen members, to be appointed by the 
Chair. 

A delegate from "Wyandotte county moved to amend the 
amendment, so as to make the committee consist of one from 
each Judicial District. 

The question was put on the amendment to the amendment, 
and it was lost. 

The question was then put on the amendment, to make the 
committee consist of fifteen members, and it was lost. 

The original motion, for a committee of one from each Con- 
gressional District, was then agreed to. 

Mr. Emmett Callahan, of Wichita, moved that a Committee 
on Credentials, to consist of three members, be appointed. 

Agreed to. 

A telegram from L. L. Bingaman and W. A. Thompson, dele- 
gates from Scott county, was then read, asking that E. E. Hub- 
bell be authorized to cast the vote of Scott county in the 
Convention. 

On motion, the request was granted. 

Moved that the Convention take a recess of twenty minutes. 

Lost. 

It being announced that Hon. Wm. A. Phillips was in the 



20 Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 

room, loud calls were made for that gentleman, who came for- 
ward, amid loud applause, and spoke as follows: 
Mr. Chairman and Oentlemen of the Kansas Republican Convention: 

It gives me great pleasure to-day to be with 5 ou, aod to meet with the repre- 
sentatives of the State assembled in convention. I have witnessed many of the 
State Republican Conventions, although not those of the last few years, and I 
remember the convention which met at Osawatomie and framed the first plat- 
form of the Republican party of the State. The men who figured in that con- 
vention were men who had figured prominently in the Free State party, thus^ 
merged into the Republican, and I remember particularly when my friend 
Horace Geeeley came down to take part in the original organization of the 
party in Kansas. To-day the Republican party of this State occupies a proud 
position, which is secured to it by the fact in its history, that this State gave 
birth to the Republican party of the Nation. (Applause.) The history of Kan- 
sas is firmly interwoven with the history of the Republican party. Kansas 
gave the impulse, and Kansas stamped upon the flag that you carry the prin- 
ciples which have given life, character and history to Republicanism. 

I wish to recall, in the few moments that I shall occupy to-day, the great 
history and achievements of that party. During the last twenty-five years, that 
party has written in the history of this country the most glorious record made 
by any party that ever existed. (Applause.) That party was formed to be the 
defender of human rights; that party became the champion of the down- 
trodden and the weak. That party was formed for the express purpose of pro- 
tecting the rights of the working man. That party, in its impulse and in it& 
history, has made a glorious record for human rights, for Republican liberty, 
and for progress in every direction. I would say to the Republicans of this 
State, represented here to-day, that Kansas and the country expect from our 
party a continuance of the work that has made up that record. Kansas and 
the country expect that Republicans will not sit idly down at the foot of the 
grand monument they have built to good government, but that, remembering 
the glory of the past, they will go forward to greater achievements for popular 
liberty. 

There are now, throughout the coimtry, murmurings among the people. I 
do not say that all these murmurings are well founded. I do not say that all 
complaints are just. But when there is a grievance, it is the express mission 
of the Republican party to right it. I say it is the express mission of the Re- 
publican party, and more: it is the duty of the Republican party, and the privi- 
lege of the Republican party, to stand for the people, to grasp the Republican 
standard, and place it in the front of the march of human progress and liberty 
in this nineteenth century. (Applause.) The duty of the Republican party is 
to act for the people, in an intelligent way. 

Kansas is full of soldiers, and they have claims not only on the party but the 
country. Whatever has heretofore been promised to them must be made good. 
The Republican party has said, in the platform that carried it to glorious victory 
two years ago, that it was in favor of service pensions. I had the honor to rep- 
resent a part of the State In the Congress of the United States when the arrearages 



Twenty-ninth Bepiiblican State Convention. 21 

of pensions bill was pending. It was said that bill would bankrupt the Govern- 
ment, would beggar the treasury. When the bill became a law, our surplus was 
forty or fifty millions. When two hundred and eighty millions had been paid 
out, under its provisions, the surplus was three hundred millions. (Applause.) 
Such distributions do not impoverish: they all come back again. I wish to say 
here, in addition, that, in responding to and redressing the grievances complained 
of by the Alliance men and the farmers, it is proper to remember that most of 
these Alliance men are Republicans. We claim to-day, that those members of 
the Farmers' Alliance who have been Republicans are really so still; in their 
hearts they are with us. I wish to say to every Republican temporarily alien- 
ated, you belonged to the Republican party because it was the party of fair play; 
and I want every Republican speaker on this floor, and every Republican in this 
State, to be ready at all times to welcome them back and remind them that the 
old party is the one to be depended on. (Loud applause.) 

I did not rise to inflict a speech upon you. I am here to rejoice with the Re- 
publicans of Kansas that the party has a history so grand that time can never 
blot out its glorious record. Until men forget the principles on which this great 
Government was founded, or until freedom and liberty cease to stir men's hearts, 
or these words become meaningless, its history can never be blotted out. (Ap- 
plause.) I arose ouly to give you a few earnest words in reference to the pres- 
ent condition of the party and the duty devolving on its members, and to say to 
you that 1 confidently expect your action here will be in perfect accord with the 
record of the party in the past. When the election occurs in November, I hope 
the Republican party in this State will give a glorious account of itself, and 
maintain Kansas in the front rank among the States. ( Long and loud applause.) 

In response to loud and repeated calls, Hon. Webb McNall 
€ame forward, greeted with applause from all parts of the hall, 
and being introduced by the Chair, spoke as follows: 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: 

It has been customary in Kansas for our friends, the enemy, to defeat us in 
the months of June, July, August, September and October; but in the month of 
November we always manage to outcount them — and fairly too. (Laughter 
and applause.) We are going to do it this fall, and we are going to do it thor- 
oughly. (Applause.) I have attended a good many Republican conventions, 
and can say of this one what was said by the Irisliniau who had been in the 
country twelve years. He declared on the glorious day of independence that 
he had attended more than forty fourth of Julys in the past twelve years, and 
this was the greatest one of all. (Laughter and applause.) 

When I glance over this great body of Republicans, I am satisfied there is 
no doubt about the result this fall. The majority may not be eighty-two thou- 
sand, as it is an olf year, but it will be large enough for all practical purposes. 
•Only a few days ago a so-called "People's Convention" met in this hall. 
There were assembled at that time Knights of Labor, Alliance men, Single Tax 
men, and I know not what else, gathered together in one body here, to make an 
unholy combination, the sole object of which was to defeat the Republican 



22 Twenty-ninth Bepublican State Convention. 

party this fall. How can there be any legitimate combination between the 
parties who met here at that time ? Between Alliance men, ninety-nine out of 
one hundred of whom belong to the producing classes — tillers of the soil — who 
work from twelve to fifteen hours six days out of each week, who desire better 
prices for what they raise; and between the Knights of Labor, nineteen-twen- 
tieths of whom I might say are the employes of corporations, who desire shorter 
hours, more pay, lower prices for what they have to buy from these same Alli- 
ance producers ? How there can be any legitimate combination between two 
such elements, whose interests lie in directly opposite directions, I am unable 
to fathom. The only object they can have is, to beat the best party in the 
United States — the party that is in favor of the poor man, in favor of the la- 
boring man. 

Why, in some of the reformers' conventions of this State they are resolving 
against trusts. They do not seem to know that there is a law, placed on the 
statute books by a Republican Legislature, against trusts. These parties mostly 
resemble the Democratic party, in one respect at least: they always camp one- 
day behind the Republican party. They remind me more than anything else 
of a Johnny Reb. that was captured down in Georgia in front of Atlanta, dur- 
ing Sherman's march to the sea. He was brought before the Union captain 
and asked, "Who is in command of your forces?" He said, "Gen. Sherman.'^ 
When asked, "Gen. Sherman! how can that be?" he answered, "Why, when- 
ever Sherman's army moves, we do." (Laughter and applause.) This is the 
condition of our friends, the enemy, in the State of Kansas. 

You have heard a large, loud and distinct noise from the western part of the 
State, about what these people are going to do this fall. Just such a noise has. 
come from the same individuals on similar occasions before. None of these in- 
dividuals have lost their voices; they howl like coyotes. Two years ago the 
Republicans were frightened. It is a good thing sometimes to become fright- 
ened. The more we are frightened the larger the majority. (Applause.) Let 
us face the enemy now, and not lie down and let them walk over us. Let us 
force the fighting, and carry the war into Africa. (Applause.) 

Hon. Lewis Hanback, being called for, was presented by the 
Chairman, amid applause, and said: 

To be called, if but for a moment, before so grand an assembly as this, is to 
fill the heart with satisfaction, to overflowing. As I look into the faces of these 
men who for years and years, many of them for thirty years, have marched be- 
neath the banner of Republicanism, I rejoice in my heart this day that I am a 
Republican. (Applause.) As I look into the faces of this grand assemblage of 
men, my mind goes back to the early days of my boyhood, when, but seventeen, 
I marched and shouted for Fremont and Dayton. When looking into the sky 
I saw not only the flag of my country floating there, but streamers with those 
names upon them, flying in the blue above, proclaiming to all the world the 
birth of a new party. 

Since that time the banner of the republic has been carried by that party. 
In war and in peace it has kept step to the music of the Union. Always obe- 



Twenty-ninth Bepublican State Convention, 23 

dient to the public will, it has bowed only to the judgment of loyalty. In its 
councils no traitor ever had a place, and 'the voice of treason was stricken dumb 
at its command. From Sumpter to Appomattox, it was the party that gave 
strength to you and to me; to the women who remained at home to pray for 
your welfare and for mine, and to the men who did their part in sustaining us 
in the field. 

Every line of the legislation upon our statute books in which we now pride 
ourselves, was placed there by the Republican party for the advancement of the 
well being of the people, and the perpetuity of the grandest republic that ever 
graced the world. 

I am a Republican, because it is the party of progress; because wherever it 
holds its councils there abide love and loyalty, vice flees, and the demon of rum 
goes howling to the Democratic camp. (Applause.) I am for the Republican 
party, because its leaders are falsely assailed — assailed by men unfit to loosen 
the latchets of their shoes; assailed while striving with all their energy to build 
up the institutions of the country. I am for the Republican party, because, by 
its power and through its influence, I expect to rejoice in the fullness of that 
day, the rays of whose morning sun already gild the eastern sky, when the flag 
of Sumpter, made doubly glorious and beautiful at Appomattox, dyed in the red 
blood of my countrymen, shall be honored in Mississippi as in Kansas (applause); 
when In South Carolina every citizen of the republic may stand without fear or 
favor, and pronounce the sentiments that spring from his heart without threat 
or danger. 

The day will come, and is now here, when the voice raised by you will in- 
crease in volume; when the example of obedience to law and love of country, 
set forth in the magnificent majority your presence so well assures, will be re- 
peated from every part of this broad land, and all men will worship at the altar 
of country, redeemed and purified by the loyalty of the men of Kansas and the 
nation. (Loud applause.) 

Committees were announced bj the Chair, as follows: 

Committee on Resolutions. — J. K. Hudson, of Shawnee county, third district, 
chairman; first district, R. K. McCartney, of Jetferson; second, B. F. Wallack, 
of Atchison; fourth, Geo. T. Anthony, of Franklin; fifth, .J. AV. Hammond, of 
Coffey; sixth, E. Van Gundy, of Crawford; seventh, R. N. Allen, of Neosho; 
eighth, W. McK. Merrifield, of Dickinson; ninth, R. M. Easley, of Reno; tenth, 
J. B. Remington, of Miami; eleventh, L. M. Pickering, of Cherokee; twelfth, 
G. M. Parks, of Washington; thirteenth, C. R. Mitchell, of Cowley; fourteenth, 
C. M. Harshbarger, of Russell; fifteenth, A. L. Marks, of Jewell; sixteenth, T. 
S. Haun, of Hodgeman; seventeenth, W. A. Reeder, of Phillips; eighteenth, O. 
H. Bentley, of Sedgwick; nineteenth, W. M. Massey, of Sumner; twentieth, 
C. D. Shrader, of Stafford; twenty-first, F. B. Dawes, of Clay; twenty-second, 
J. S. Hidden, of Nemaha; twenty-third, K. E. Wilcockson, of Logan; twenty- 
fourth, C. H. Eldred, of Barber; twenty-fifth, S. G. Mead, of McPherson; 
twenty-sixth, J. F. Hoffman, of Greenwood; twenty-seventh, John Groendyke, 
of Ford; twenty-eighth, C. DeHart, of Pratt; twenty-ninth, P. M. Clark, of Wy- 
andotte; thirtieth, P. Q. Bond, of Saline; thirty-first, W. D. Weller, of Co- 



2i Tiventy -ninth Republican State Convention. 

manche; tliirtj^-second, J. F. Van Voorhis, of Seward; thirty-third, C. S. Triplett, 
of Wichita; thirty-fourth, James Justus, of Graham; thirty-fifth, J. C. Rankin, 
of Osage. 

Committee on Permanent Organization. — A. H. Ellis, of Mitchell county, 
chairman; B. L. Stine, of Wyandotte; W. W. Walker, of Ottawa; A. E. Parks, 
of Marshall; O, F. Carson, of Montgomery; Arthur Folger, of Leavenworth; 
Thomas Morrison, of Marion; Adrian Reynolds, of Chautauqua; Frank Dan- 
ford, of Ellis; L. Dean, of Smith; W. C. Hilts, of Pawnee; A. Sabin, of Fin- 
ney; Theo. Botkin, of Stevens; J. W. Pettijohn. of Jackson; Grant Crawford, 
of Lincoln. 

Committee on Rules and Order of Business. — L. E. Finch, Osage county, 
fourth district, chairman; first district, Ira F. Collins, of Nemaha; second, W. 
J. Bawden, of Bourbon; third, W. R. Cowley, of Cherokee; fifth, R. S. Craft, 
of Marshall; sixth, J. W. Huff, of Osborne; seventh, S. W. Yandivert, of Gray. 

Committee on Credentials. — T. T. Taylor, Reno county, chairman; T. F. 
Garver, of Saline; S. H. Hamilton, of Washington. 

On motion the Convention adjourned to eight o'clock in the 
evening. 



Twenty-ninth Mepuhlican State Convention. 25 



EYENING SESSION. 

The Convention was called to order at 8:30 p. m., by W. E. 
Smith, Temporary Chairman. 

In response to loud calls, Hon. J. R. Hallowell came for- 
ward, being received with applause, and addressed the Conven- 
tion as follows: 

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: 

Two years ago the Republican party of this Nation, after being out of power 
for four years, went before the people with a platform containing pledges upon 
the great national qnestions agitating the country that so commended itself to 
the people of the Nation, that we hurled from power the Democracy of the 
country, and elected to the presidential chair that gallant representative of Re- 
publican principles, Benjamin Hakeison. (Applause.) In that contest, the 
Republicans of the State of Kansas rolled up the mountain majority of 83,000. 

They tell me that in the two years that have passed such changes have 
taken place that the people of Kansas are about to reverse that majority. I, 
for one, have too much confidence in the imperturbability, the judgment, and 
the good sense of the people of the State of Kansas, to believe any thing of the 
kind. (Applause.) Every pledge made to the people in that platform has been 
fulfilled, or is being fulfilled, by the representatives of the Republican party In 
the national (Congress. Step by step they are fulfilling the pledges made to the 
people, and while in the time that has passed we have taken advanced steps in 
our ideas upon some questions, we are in the same condition in that respect, in 
our advance, as the Republican party. It has always been ready to act upon 
the demands of the people, and has been listening for them, from the time it 
was born to the present day. We are in the same condition as the young color 
bearer of the Ninth Indiana in one of the battles of the late war. At a certain 
point in the conflict, when the regiment halted beneath a withering fire, he 
moved on and planted the colors some paces in front of the line of battle. 
*' Come back," the Colonel cried; "bring the colors back to the line." The gal- 
lant fellow called out in response: "Colonel, bring the line up to the colors." 
(Applause.) So it will be with the Republican party in this contest. Those 
who have taken advanced positions are calling now to the party to align itself 
upon the colors, and it will come up to the colors and win another great victory 
In November. (Applause.) 

There is nothing pleases me more, fellow citizens, than to meet face to face 
with such a body of representatives of the Republican party as I see here to-day. 
A tribe of politicians of recent origin is now spreading heresies abroad, the bur- 
den of which is, that the Republican party has never done anything for the 
people. ( Laughter and applause. ) The modern-day theories of these gentlemen 



26 Tioenty-ninth Repvhlican State Convention. 

have not yet impressed themselves upon the people of the State of Kansas to 
such an extent as to reverse the grand majorities of the Republican party. That 
party has, since the organization of the State, ruled the destinies of its people. 
Whenever the people have asked for a change in the laws, it has been made by 
the Republican party. Not another State iji the Union has upon its statute 
books so many provisions in the interest of the laboring men and the poor men 
as the State of Kansas. (Applause.) In the fundamental law, the constitution, 
you find provided an exemption for heads of families, protecting them from op- 
pression of creditors; and in our statutes are provisions protecting laborers, 
even their wages, if you please, for the last sixty days preceding the time when 
a debt is attempted to be enforced. 

The legislation of this State — and I say it without fear of successful contra- 
diction — has been in favor of the bread earners, and not in favor of greedy cap- 
italists. And now, fellow citizens, you have a long work before you, one which 
I know from my past experience with the Republicans of Kansas will be well 
and thoroughly done. Remember that you are here as representatives of the 
party of LiNcoLisr, of Seward, of Grant, of Logan, of Garfield. Remem- 
ber that John A. Martin was a member of our party from boyhood to death, 
teaching its principles through the columns of the Atchison Champion, and I 
am sorry to say that to-day the Champion has turned its back upon the teach- 
ings of John A. Martin. (Long and continued cheers, and cries of "Good I 
hit them again.") 

Gentlemen, I thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me, in calling 
upon me to address you, and for the patience with which you have listened to 
me. 

Mr. J. R. Burton, being vociferously called for, came for- 
ward, was cordially received, and said: 

One of the songs of the evening said that we were going to support the ticket 
nominated like h — 1. That might be construed in two ways. But, speaking 
seriously, it means, that this is the year of all years for a man to be a Republi- 
can. Anybody can join the procession when there is no work to do; and we 
must not forget, in the enthusiasm of the moment, that there is danger ahead 
this year. Ordinarily we have no fight in Kansas; this campaign will be a 
battle, and there is always danger in a battle. There have been grumbling and 
growling and swearing in our ranks. But Grant said of the old Black Eagle 
of Illinois, that he did his swearing in council, but in the battle Logan would 
always be found at the front. (Applause.) 

We have made mistakes, perhaps, as have all parties, but we have not made 
as many nor as serious mistakes as have the parties opposing us. We have 
been in power in Kansas; we have elected every Legislature; and the history of 
this State shows that there never assembled a Legislature, except two, that did 
not have a constitutional majority of members, in one branch, who made their 
living working on the farm; and on more than one occasion a constitutional ma- 
jority in both branches were practical farmers. (Applause.) 

Kansas has taken an advanced position in the cause of labor. Two years 
ago the Legislature of this State enacted a law — the anti-trust law — and if a 



Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 27 

similar bill had been passed by all the States their enforcement would throttla 
every trust or combine against labor in this country. Some other States have, 
and all the States will, follow the lead of Kansas in this great reform. We set 
the example, and not only other States, but Congress has since passed a similar 
bill. Perhaps, in the enthusiastic enforcement of one particular law, we have 
been negligent in the enforcement of this particular remedial measure. 

Kansas has a larger proportion of men and women who earn their bread by 
the sweat of their brow than any other State, and the legislation of this State 
has fairly reflected the character of her people. (Applause.) We do not have 
to apologize for Republicanism in Kansas, and there is no reason why the party 
should be beaten in this State; *and it will not be, if the campaign is conducted 
in a proper manner. 

It is inspiring to talk of the glories of the Republican party and to recall the 
heroism of its great leaders in the past, but we should not rely alone upon this. 
The past has its lessons as the future its hopes, but the present has its duties. 

We are face to face with living issues that must be met; with present prob- 
lems that must be solved. 

The Republican party cannot afford to be "a pensioner on the dead." It is 
true In the contest two years ago we came out victorious by a large majority. 
In this off year we can do with less and we will have to — may be. (Laughter.) 
But it seems to me the disturbed condition grown up in this State, if met not 
by passion or abuse, nor by apology or excuse, but met by reason, candor and 
integrity, holds nothing of danger to our party. 

That party never can and never ought to win success that is organized by 
star chamber proceedings, or in secret, (great applause,) that is un-Republi- 
can and un-American, that opposes every principle of government handed 
down to us by the fathers. Some paper recently said of me that I was out of 
politics. I shall sue that paper for libel. (Laughter.) A great many mean 
things have been said of me, and I have borne them meekly. This I will not 
stand; for I believe that a man who does not take an interest in politics has no 
right to live in this country. The very genius of our government makes every 
man a politician, if he does his duty; and every question bearing upon the sub- 
ject of politics should be met and discussed in the broad light of day, and not 
controlled by any secret order. (Applause.) Next to religion, politics should 
engage the most serious thoughts of men, and each should shun the darkness 
and court the light. 

That party ought to be beaten that puts a ban upon any class of men en- 
gaged in an honorable calling. Just at this time I am not doing much business 
in the law; but a lawyer has just as much right to be a politician as anybody 
else. A great party is organized in Kansas upon the foundations of an institu- 
tion that debars lawyers and bankers, and perhaps others, from its ranks. Such 
a party is un-American, and can never succeed in this enlightened age. I think 
I have said about enough. (Cries of "Go on," "Go on.") I will say one other 
thing. If we have had any differences; if there is anything that is not exactly 
acceptable to any one, let us in this campaign, when Republicanism is at stake, 
put that aside. Let us settle our own family quarrels. Let us remember that 



28 Twenty-ninth BepiMican State Convention. 

the basic stone upon which our party is founded is the principle upon which 
our republic stands — equal and exact justice to all. If any mistake of our 
party, or any blunder of any leader, is pointed out and emphasized, let us 
answer by conceding the truth, and point to the virtues and great deeds of Re- 
publicanism of the present no less than of the past. 

Go now to the halls of Congress, and there you see Republicanism legislating 
against trusts, in favor of more money — and especially in the cause of silver; 
in favor of pure food, in favor of a revision of the tariff and reciprocity, forfeit- 
ing railroad land grants, and in behalf of the defenders of our country; and at 
every step in this, and much other beneficial legislation demanded by the people, 
Republicanism is combated by a band of revolutionary obstructionists, in the 
name of Democracy. (Applause.) 

What party can the people look to for relief, except the Republican party? 
We have a right to go into this contest earnestly, not for the sole purpose of 
elevating the nominees of the State or Congressional ticket; but because these 
men represent this State, represent principles we believe in, we will vote for 
them to a man — yes, vote an unscratched ticket. 

The contest is well on; there is but little time; the enemy are already armed 
and in the field, and every Republican can afford to go to work, giving some of 
his time — not by blowing, not by lying or deceiving, not by bribery, but — by 
candid, earnest labor for his party and for his country. (Great applause.) 

Gov. Riddle, after repeated calls from the delegates, arose 
in his place at the Secretary's desk, and spoke as follows: 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: 

I had supposed that we were ready to continue our labors for this evening, 
and had not anticipated that 1 would be called upon to waste your time, or to 
occupy it. I do not intend to make an extended speech. I noticed with satis- 
faction, however, a reference to Kansas, made by one of the speakers this even- 
ing. 1 noticed it with peculiar pleasure, because it referred to the beginning 
of the Republican party. It is a Kansas thing — the Republican party — and 
we are all proud of it. (Applause.) I have thought perhaps it was due to that 
fact that Kansas has given the party the largest majority given it by any State 
In the Union. It was an idea promulgated on Kansas soil that led to the nomi- 
nation of Abraham Lincoln. The question was raised. Shall Kansas be free 
or slave ? And Kansas is free. (Applause. ) Ever since it has been a State, with 
but one or two slight lapses of loyalty, it has been true to first principles, from 
center to circumference. 

There are times when we are tempted to be led astray, when some seem to 
think that the people who made the Republican party, and who made Kansas, 
were not in truth the people. Certain people have put in an appearance at this 
late day, who assert that they are the people. Now, when those folks who in- 
habited Kansas, and who made it a State, and those folks who made up the ad- 
vanced thought of the American Union, provided for that great piece of legis- 
lative thought known as the homestead law, which gave to every man in America 
a home, if he wanted to occupy it, I presume it was the people who were behind 



Twenty -ninth RepiMican State Convention. 29 

it, that party of the people who made the Republican party. (Applause.) In 
like manner we might speali of much other admirable legislation placed on the 
statute books by the people who compose the Republican party. 

We have here to-night a Convention made up of delegates from all parts of 
the State — made up of all kinds of people that make up the State. We have 
more farmers than those who made up the so-called "People's party" convention. 
Excluding nobody, giving every body equal rights in our Convention, we have a 
greater right to call ourselves the people's party, than any single class has who 
can get together. Those we represent are the people who have directed the 
affairs of this State in the past, those who have made its laws — the laws best 
calculated to promote the interests of those who work — not with their jaws. 
And ours is admittedly the most progressive State in the Union; I should not 
say "one of the most," but the most. 

Now those who have done this are entitled to some respect in the commu- 
nity in which they live. I doubt if any set of men claiming alone to be the 
people have all the rights that inhere in that title; we will claim some of them 
any way, in November. Now, you may have noticed that the people who are 
in the habit of accusing others of using the party lash are this year using the 
aforesaid party lash as no other party under heaven ever did use it in the sup- 
port of the principles they have adopted. When such people as this assert that 
they are the only people in the country, some of us have a right to object, and 
I believe we will. (Applause.) When they set up a panacea of which no man 
knows the formula, to be applied to a disease of which even their own quacks 
cannot give the diagnosis, they will soon find themselves in a hospital, of which 
they are not themselves in charge. (Laughter and applause.) And I believe 
that is enough for me to say now. 

The Chair: The first thing in order is to hear the report of the Committee on 
Permanent Organization. 

Mr. A. H. Ellis, of Mitchell county, chairman of the com- 
mittee, presented the report, as follows: 

For Permanent Chairman: Robert F. Mooee, of Butler county. 

For Permanent Secretary: A. P. Riddle, of Ottawa county. 

For Assistant Secretaries: J. E. Hoagland, of Jackson county; Minekva 
Walker, of Harper county; E. G. Krezdorn, of Leavenworth county. 

On motion, the report of the committee was received and 
adopted, and the committee discliarged. 

"The Chair appointed A. H. Ellis, of Mitchell county; L. E. 
Finch, of Osage county, and W. T. S. May, of Decatur county, 
a committee to escort the Permanent Chairman to his place. 

Mr. MooRE was presented to the Convention by the Tempo- 
rary Chairman, in the following language: 
Gentlemen of the Gon'cention: 

I have the distinguished honor of introducing to you the Hon. Robert F. 
Moore, of Butler county, who has been selected as Permanent Chairman. He 



so Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 

has lived in Kansas over thirtj' years, vv^as a page in Territorial Legislature at 
Lecompton, and served tliree years during the civil war, in the old Seventh 
Kansas. More than all this, he had a part in the labors of Old John Brown, ol 
Osawatomie. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance of the State, but It has 
not affected his Republicanism in the least. He is a brave and stalwart Re- 
publican. 

Mr. MooKE responded, as follows: 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: 

I would be ungrateful, indeed, if I did not appreciate deeply the honor you 
have bestowed upon me. But I cannot appropriate it wholly to myself. It is 
due in great part to the people of the Walnut and the Arkansas valleys, who 
presented my name to you. 

Realizing that we are here for business, and not for an experience meeting, 
we will proceed with the regular order of business. 

On motion of Mr. J. L. Bristow, of Douglas county, Hugh 
Cameron, of Douglas county, was admitted to the floor, as an 
accredited representative of the Assembly of Knights of Labor 
of which he was a member. 

Mr. T. F. Garver, of Saline county, chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Credentials, presented the report of that committee. 
The only questions before the committee related to the claim of 
Staffo1:-d county to one more delegate than was allowed by the 
State Central Committee, and contesting claims of two persons, 
to sit as alternate for a delegate from Morris county not present. 

On motion, the report of the committee was received and 
adopted, and the committee discharged. 

Mr. L. E. Finch, of Osage county, chairman of the Committee 
on Rules and Order of Business, presented the report of the 
committee. 

On motion, report received and adopted, and committee dis- 
charged. 

Mr. John E. Bagley, of Sherman county, moved that nom- 
inating speeches be not allowed. 

Agreed to. 

Attention was called to the fact that Mr. J. M. Miller, 
president of the State Eepublican League, was in the hall, 
whereupon he was called for by the delegates, and coming for- 
ward, addressed the Convention as follows: 



Tioenty-ninth Bepuhlican State Co7ivention. 31 

As I was coming to the platform I was told by a number of the delegates to 
■"keep it short," and as I have been invited to tell you what is the programme 
of the League for this year, I will confine myself to that subject. So far as the 
League is concerned, its programme is to elect the Republican ticket. (Ap- 
plause.) Every one here ought to know, if they do not, that that is the object 
ot the League in this State as well as in the Nation. It is an educational insti- 
tution. It aims to educate the people into a knowledge of the principles of the 
Republican party, and the importance of voting the Republican ticket. It 
seeks, by extending its organization not only into every county, but into every 
township, and into every school district, to create such a network of educational 
agencies that every voter will be within range of the true Republican gospel. 

Now, as President of the State Republican League, I desire to say, that we 
are in for the fight. We are anxious to carry this warfare into Africa, and we 
know that when November comes, although the majorities may be counted 
against us in the long summer months, there will come again to the Republican 
party victories like those that have crowned its efforts in the past. ( Applause.) 
The Republican party, with the grand principles which it has adopted, will 
continue to grow, until it shall have redeemed the whole of this fair land from 
traitor's hands and traitor's tongues, and until the demon of rum shall have 
been swept from the national domain. (Great applause.) 

Gentlemen of the Convention, Colonel Phillips has well said that the glories 
•of the past history of Kansas, and the glories of the past history of the Repub- 
lican party, are suflQcient to inspire us to work with every energy for the suc- 
cess of the Republican party, that its glories may not be dimmed through any 
fault of ours. The very soil on which we live has been consecrated by the 
blood of men whose lives ennoble the record of humanity. On the plains of 
Kansas were fought the first battles in the great struggle for liberty, and the 
noble stand made by the pioneers who laid the foundations of this great State, 
admonish us now to stand firm to our principles. Here upon the domain of 
Kansas, this great empire of the West, on the highway from ocean to ocean, are 
yet to be fought the great battles of the Republican party. I have an abiding 
faith that the result of the battles yet to come will show to the people of this 
continent, and to the people of the world, that the party of Lincoln, of Grant, 
•of Garfield, and of Blaine, that grandest statesman that the world has ever 
produced (applause), the party of the men whose names adorn the panels of 
this hall, the party of the gallant hero who now sits in the White House, of 
those great men who now represent Kansas In the Senate of the UnitM States, 
one of them the presiding officer therein (applause), the party of Lyman U. 
Humphrey, is still worthy of its founders. (Great applause.) 

Mr. J. H. Ceichton, of Labette county, moved that the regu- 
lar order of business, which provided for the report of the 
Committee on Kesolutions before the nomination of candidates, 
be suspended, and that the Convention proceed to make nomi- 
nations. 

Agreed to. 



32 Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. ' 

Mr. J. B. McAfee, of Shawnee county: I desire to place in nomination, for 
the office of Chief Justice, the present incumbent, Albert H. Horton. 

Mr. J. H. Crichton, of Labette county: I move that the rules be suspended, 
and that Albert H. Horton be declared the nominee of this Convention, for 
the oflB(ie of Chief Justice, by acclamation. 

Agreed to. 

In response to loud calls from the members of the Conven- 
tion and visitors, Chief Justice Hoeton came forward and spoke 
as follows: 

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Republican Convention: 

I appear before you to express to you, and to each of you personally, my pro- 
found gratitude for the distinguished honor you have conferred upon me in se- 
lecting me again as the nominee of the Republican party for Chief Justice of 
Kansas. The office Is not a political or a partisan one, and yet the great ma- 
jority of the people of this State, that has done so much for morality, for tem- 
perance, and for the material development of our great commonwealth, are 
entitled to have judges of our courts elected who are in sympathy with their 
institutions and their statutes. I have an abiding faith in the principles of the 
Republican party, and if you shall select, as I have no doubt you will, as the 
leader of the Republican party in the coming political campaign, that honest, 
conscientious and able Governor, Lyman U. Humphrey (applause) as the next 
State executive, a full and complete triumph awaits the Republican party in 
November. (Long and loud applause.) 

Mr. J. M. Allen, of Neosho county: I would place in nomination, for the 
office of Governor, Lyman U. Humphrey. 

Mr. Frank Danford, of Ellis county: I move that the rules be suspended, 
and that the nomination be made by acclamation. 

Agreed to. 

Mr. J. H. Crichton, of Labette county: I move the appointment of a com- 
mittee of three, to wait upon Governor Humphrey, and notify him of his nom- 
ination. 

The Chair: The Chair will take the motion as agreed to, by unanimous con- 
sent, and will appoint the gentleman from Labette, Mr. J. H. Crichton, the 
gentleman from Butler, Mr. H. D. Hill, and the gentleman from Ellis, Mr. 
Frank Danford, as such committee. 

Mr. E. J. Kenney, of Neosho county, placed in nomination, 
for Lieutenant Governor, A. J. Felt, of Nemaha county. 

On motion of A. E. Park, of Marshall county, the rules were 

suspended, and Lieutenant Governor Felt was renominated, by 

acclamation. 

The Chair: The motion is carried, and Andrew J. Felt is our next Lieu- 
tenant Governor. (Applause.) 



Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 33 

At this point Governor Humphrey appeared, escorted by the 
committee, and was greeted with loud and prolonged applause, 
to which he responded as follows: 

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Contention: 

1 am advised by your committee of the recent action of this Convention 
whereby I have been renominated by acclamation for the office of Governor, 
and I beg to assure you that I am deeply sensible of this mark of kindness and 
confidence on your part. Indeed I feel so deeply moved that I shall not at- 
tempt to detain you beyond a few words of thanks and acknowledgment 

It would be false both to you and myself, however, if I were to affect either 
surprise or indifference at this result, for I am neither surprised nor indifferent. 
But while the result has long been anticipated and never doubted, it is equally 
true that such anticipation has not in the slightest degree abated the keen sense 
of gratitude and appreciation which possesses me absolutely at this moment. 

In fact, my chief purpose in appearing before you now is, not to make a 
speech, but rather to make my acknowledgment to this Convention and to thank 
you individually and as a body, and through you, the people whom ycm severally 
represent, for this unanimous renomination — this renewed expression of confi- 
dence and good will, wliich carries with it the approval of my official conduct 
for the past two years as the chief executive of the State. 

I am not vain enough to appropriate this renomination to myself personally, 
or construe it in any sense as a personal tribute. Nor am I weak enough, 
counting vanity as a weakness, to arrogate to myself any special personal merit 
or importance by reason of it over and above that possessed by thousands of 
my fellow citizens to whom I owe my preferment in the first instance two years 
ago, and whose good will and the confidence of the Republican party it has 
been my highest ambition to retain. 

This I have felt could best be done by earning and by deserving it; by such 
a faithful, honest and economical discharge of the difficult and perplexing duties 
of the office, in the best interest of the whole State, as to insure approval of the 
discriminating judgment of the people. In other words, I have f61t that I could 
best serve the Republican party by faithful service to the State, for the State of 
Kansas is the child of the Republican party, the party of principles and convic- 
tions; the party that has made the history of this State and this nation for the 
past quarter of a century, and whose record during that time bristles with 
achievements in behalf of country and nationality, human right and human lib- 
erty and human progress — the party of Lincoln and Grant, and Greeley 
and Garfield and Logan, of Harrison and Blaine, and, I should add, the 
party that made Kansas; that has guided and controlled her fortunes from her 
earliest infancy until the present moment; the true party of the people, which 
proposes and promises from present appearances to continue to dominate Kan- 
sas for a period in the future so indefinite as to be exceedingly discouraging to 
the hopes and aspirations of our Democratic friends. 

With this feeling and ambition, and with this understanding of the situation, 
with a profound sense of the important duties and grave responsibilities of the 



34: T\oent%-niinth Repiiblican State Convention. 

great trust imposed upon me, coupled with a natural and, in fact, troublesome 
tendency to self-disparagement and distrust of my own worthiness, I entered 
upon the discharge of the duties of the office to which I had been chosen by an 
unprecedented majority of the voters of Kansas. The responsibilities came 
thick and fast. The embarrassments multiplied lilie grasshoppers. Perplexi- 
ties swarmed — coming "not as single spies, but in battalions." 

Problems were often presented, in which personal friendships and ambitions, 
sectional interests and public considerations, seemed strangely mixed, requiring 
for solution, many times, some moral courage, a good deal of discretion, and, 
withal, firmness of purpose and promptness of action. In truth 1 was made to 
feel, as never before, that the government of a State of a million and three- 
quarters of people was a vast and mighty machine, reaching out and touching 
the vital interests of the people at a thousand points. 

Now, then, I am not here to say that, in the administration of public affairs, 
so complicated and oftentimes exceedingly delicate in character, no mistakes 
have been made — for there have been some, doubtless, notwithstanding the 
most honest and earnest endeavors, in which 1 have had at all times the valuable 
and cheerful assistance and cooperation of those associated with me in the State 
administration. There have doubtless been mistakes of judgment, of omission 
and of commission — those errors which are inseparable from all human endeav- 
ors — for which I cheerfully accept the entire responsibility. 

But while this is true and proper to be stated, I am glad to say, on the other 
hand, that in the main, and in all essential respects, the State government in all 
its various departments has been and is being prudently, carefully, honestly, 
efficiently and economically conducted and administered, in the best interest oi 
the State, and in such a manner as to command the approval of our friends, and 
safely challenge the criticisms of our political enemies. And whatever of credit 
may be due for this, as before suggested, is due alike to all those associated in 
the administration of the State government in all its bureaus and departments. 

Now then, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, my only purpose, as stated, was to 
say a few words of acknowledgment and thanks for the unmerited honor you 
have conferredmpon me in this renomination, and I must not trespass further 
upon your time and patience. I feel, however, as if I were standing in a dis- 
tinguished presence — in the presence of the Republican party of Kansas, in 
convention here assembled, in the capitol. I understand, too, that this is the 
largest convention in point of accredited delegates ever held in the State. 

And it is another significant fact, as I am informed, that a very large number, 
if not an actual majority of the Convention, are farmers — farmers in fact; men 
who are here where they belong to represent vast agricultural constituencies 
and the greatest of all our industries, which in Kansas, as elsewhere, has ever 
found its true friend in the great Republican party. I congratulate you, there- 
fore, and the State, all those interested in the cause of good government, on the 
character and make-up of the Convention, in the haimony and earnestness of 
purpose everywhere observable. It is full of hopeful significance, of courage 
and of inspiration. It is a harbinger of sure and certain victory at the polls. 
It means that Kansas proposes to stand by the colors of the Republican party in 



Twenty-ninth Repvhlican State Convention. 35 

this year of oar Lord, and that the people will ratify your work done here to-day 
by an emphatic majority for the Republican party. 

Gov. Felt, having been notified of bis nomination, came for- 
ward, and, after tbe subsidence of the applause with which he 
was greeted, spoke as follows: 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: 

I have no words appropriate to express to you the profound gratitude that I 
feel for this mark of your esteem, consideration and confidence. I am not here 
for the purpose of making a speech, gentlemen of the Convention, but simply 
to express to you, as briefly as I can, my profound regard for and gratitude to 
€ach member of this Convention, for the nomination that you have tendered me. 

I desire to thank you first of all for the renomination of Lyman U. Humph- 
KEY for Governor of this commonwealth, (applause,) because it is your cer- 
tificate of approval of an administration that is absolutely clean, and in that 
Tegard is a fitting representation of the Republicanism of the United States of 
America. We have this fall to fight the ancient enemy in a new garb, perhaps. 
I am credibly informed that within these walls, but a few days ago, an adjunct 
of the Democratic party came here and made its promise, and that it will be in- 
dorsed by the main line at Wichita next week. I want to predict that the 
people will repudiate the paper when November comes, not by 82,000 majority, 
perhaps, because this is an ofE year; but make it 50,000, and I will not knock 
off a single one. (Laughter and applause.) 

Gentlemen of the Convention, I know that some of the delegates want to get 
to their homes, and candidates for other places are to be nominated. I hope 
that it will be my fortune to meet with you in the several Congressional Districts 
between now and November, when we can talk together and confer over our 
Republican^ gospel. Remember, the time is not yours, but that of those who 
sent you; because we come not, in this campaign, to call the righteous, but sin- 
ners to repentance. (Laughter and applause.) 

Thank you again sincerely for this honor; not one that I deserve, for I am 
fully aware that the Republican party has honored me far beyond my deserving, 
but as an instrument in your hands to promote Republican supremacy, dear in 
my sight as in yours. (Applause.) 

Mr. J. M. McNay, as chairman of the Phillips county delega- 
tion, placed before the Convention the name of William Hig- 
GiNS, for Secretary of State. 

On motion of Mr. Frank Danford, of Ellis, the rules were 
suspended, and Mr. Higgins was nominated by acclamation. 

In response to the call of the delegates and visitors, Mr. 
Higgins came forward and said: 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: 

I am more than grateful to you for this second honor at the hands of the 
Republican party. 1 am not surprised, like my friend Felt, at your action, be- 



36 Ticenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 

cause the great Republican partj' is always fair aud just to its servants in giving 
them a second term when their official life and conduct warrants such indorse- 
ment. Nevertheless, I am truly and earnestly grateful, and am unable to find 
words sufficiently strong to properly lay my thanks at your feet, for again honor- 
ing me with your confidence and support. To know that my party and my 
friends are satisfied with my administration of the trust committed to me two 
years ago, is in itself pleasing to me, as my only ambition is to faithfully serve 
the people of this State in such a manner, that it may be said I honestly and 
fearlessly discharge the duties of the office, within the law, as one of the means 
of retaining our party in the confidence of this people. This has been my only 
aim, and will be for the next two jears, if my nomination is indorsed at the 
polls in November. Again thanking you for a renewal of your confidence, I 
pledge my best efforts in behalf of om' great party and the interest of the whole 
people of Kansas. 

Mr. J. A. LoYE, of Harper county, moved that the roll of 
counties be called for nominations for Auditor. 

Mr. Eli Payne, of Eeno county, moved to amend, that the 
order of business providing for the nomination of Auditor and 
Treasurer at this stage be suspended, and that the Convention 
proceed to the nomination of candidates for Attorney General 
and Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

The amendment was agreed to. 

Mr. C. W. McDonald, of Cloud county, nominated L. B. 
Kellogg, for Attorney General. 

On motion, the rules were suspended, and the nomination 
was made by acclamation. 

The appearance of Mr. Kellogg, in response to Ihe demand 
of the Convention, was greeted with applause, after which he 
said: 

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention : 

I am deeply sensible of the high honor you have conferred upon me by this 
nomination, and I sincerely thank you. You have a good deal of work before 
you to-night, and I think your Chairman set all of us a good example when he 
made his speech short. I shall do the same. I have found the office of Attor- 
ney General in the State of Kansas something of a working office. I believe in 
work and I believe in talk; but mostly I believe in work. (Applause.) 

Mr. I. D. Young, of Mitchell county, nominated Geo.W. Wi- 
NANS as the candidate of the Convention for the office of State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



Twenty-ninth Bepublican State Convention. 37 

On motion, the rules were suspended, and the nomination 
was made by acclamation. 

Mr. WiNANs, being called for by the Convention, was presented 
by the Chairman, amid applause, and said: 
Mr. Chairman and Oentlemen of the Convention: 

I have no desire to detain you bj'^ any lengthy remarks; in fact, I don't feel at 
all like making a speech, I should be sorry to have you feel, however, that I 
have any lack of appreciation of the expression of your confidence. Two years 
ago I was elected to the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. I 
have done the best I know. I regard the nomination now as a commendation 
of my work as you have known it. I thank you, individually and collectively, 
for having given me the honor of a second nomination. 

The roll of counties was then called for nominations for Aud- 
itor. 

When Clark county was reached, Mr. Ben. E. Page placed in 
nomination Harky J. Bone. 

On the call of Crawford county, Mr. Geo. W. Pye nominated 

OSOAK W. SCHAEFFEK. 

Mr. KicHAKD Waring, for Dickinson county, presented the 
name of Frank P. Stearns. 

When Ellsworth county was called, Mr. S. H. Thomas nomi- 
nated Ben. Fagan. 

When Finney county was called, Mr. Geo. L. Miller, for the 
delegation from that county, named A. H. Burtis. 

Greenwood county, by C. W. Reich, placed before the Con- 
vention Danl. L. Brown. 

Frank Petrie, of Lincoln county, presented the name of 
Tell W. Walton. 

Johnson county, by Mr. F. R. Ogg, placed in nomination 
Nick Reitz. 

Pratt county presented for the nomination, R. G. Whitman. 

On the call of Rice county, Mr. R. F. Bond nominated A. S. 
Thompson. 

When Riley county was reached, Mr. J. W. Blachly named 
James T. Ritchie. 

Mr. John Hargrave, for Rush county, responded with the 
nomination of E. L. Rush. 



38 Twenty-ninth Rejpvhlican State Convention. 

Russell county seconded the nomination of Ben Fagan. 
When Stevens county was called, Mr. Theo. Botkin placed 
before the Convention the name of L. J. Pettijohn. 

On the call of Thomas county, Mr. W. S. Willcoxon named 

C. M. HOVET. 

Wyandotte county, by Mr. R. W. Hillikek, presented the 
name of John L. Waller. 

The result of the first ballot for Auditor was as follows: 

Whole number of votes, 565; necessary to a choice, 283. 

Brown received 16 Fagan received 25 

"Walton " 23 Burtis " 20 

Reitz " 45 Ritchie " 43 

Whitman " 10 Rush «' la 

Thompson " 49 Pettijohn *' 17 

Bone " 24 Hovey " 103 

Schaeffer " 25 Waller " 104 

Stearns " 49 

It was moved that the Convention adjourn to nine o'clock 
to-morrow morning. 

Lost. 

A delegate from McPherson county moved that, on each 
succeeding ballot, the candidate having the lowest number of 
votes be dropped. 

Mr. P. P. Campbell, of Crawford county: In order to obviate the necessity 
of any such motion, Crawford county will set an example and withdraw its 
candidate, Oscab W. Schaeffee. 

The convention then proceeded to a second ballot. 

When Stevens county was reached on the call, the name of 
L. J. Pettijohn was withdrawn, and the votes of the delegates- 
from that county were cast for Hovey. 

The ballot resulted as follows: 

Whole number of votes, 557; necessary to a choice, 279. 

Bone received 28 Reitz received 34 

Stearns " 53 Thompson " 86- 

m " 19 Ritchie " 46 



Burtis '« 23 Rush " 5 

Brown " 2 Pettijohn *' 4 

Walton " 6 Waller '♦ 128 

Whitman*' 5 Hovey " 169 

It was moved that the Convention adjourn to nine o'clock to- 
morrow morning. 

Lost. 



Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 39 

A third ballot was had, with the following result: 
Whole number of votes, 549; necessary to a choice, 275. 
Hovey received 450 Waller received 99 

Mr. I. D. Young, of Mitchell county, moved that the Conven- 
tion adjourn to nine o'clock to-morrow morning. 

Lost. 

Mr. A. P. Riddle, of Ottawa county, moved that the nomina- 
tion of Mr. Hovey be made unanimous. 

Mr. W. B. TowNSEND, of Leavenworth county, seconded the 
motion, and said: 
Mr. CJiairman and Gentlemen of the Gonmntion: 

I want to say, in behalf of the colored men, who came to this Convention in 
the interest of a faithful element of the Republican party, we have asked in the 
name of 20,000 colored Republican voters of Kansas for the nomination of 
John L. Waller, for Auditor. Had you given us JoHisr L. Waller, on our 
State ticket, the enthusiasm for the ticket would be boundless. But, while 
you have denied to us that request — a representation on the ticket, we believe 
that John L. Waller is just the same man to-day politically, after his defeat, 
that he has been for the past thirteen years — willing to go to the front, where 
he has always been found in the thickest of the party battles, defending the 
party against the combined assaults of its enemies. 

And now, Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen of the Convention, while we regret 
deeply the defeat of Mr. Waller, we also regret that there are not enough 
ofBces for the white men of the party. I propose, however, to vote the ticket, 
and to do all I- can in every honorable way for its success. In conclusion, we 
would like to have it fully understood by all, that we came not here asking 
anything as special favors on account of our color; but have asked for the nom- 
ination of Mr. Waller because he is the representative of a consistent and 
deserving element of the Republican party, and because we believe it to be good 
politics and for the best interest of the party to occasionally recognize that ele- 
ment — the same as it does constantly recognize the Irish and the Yankee ele- 
ments of the party. 

At the conclusion of Mr. Townsend's remarks, which were 
loudly cheered, three cheers were given for John L. Waller. 

The Convention then adjourned to nine o'clock Thursday 
morning. 



40 Twenty-ninth Bepublican State Convention. 

THUKSDAY MOKNING SESSION. 

Thursday, September 4, 1890. 

The Convention was called to order at 9:30 a. m. 

The Chair: The time for the assembling of this Convention is now here, by- 
half an hour. A¥e will now proceed with the regular order, that is, the nomi- 
nation of a candidate for Treasurer. Eemember that there are no speeches to 
be made — only nominations. The Secretary will now call the roll of counties. 

For Bourbon comity, Mr. W. J. Bawden presented the name 

of John J. Stewart. 

J. W. Hammond, of Coffey county: In response to the wishes of many Ee- 
publican farmers of Coffey county, I place in nomination William Sims. 

On the call of Doniphan county, Mr. Phil. Kelley named S. 
N. Johnson. 

In behalf of Harper county, Mr. E. P. McCulloch placed 
before the Convention the name of O. F. Casteen. 

When Republic county was reached, Jay F. Close presented 
the name of S. G. Stover. 

The result of the first ballot was as follows: 

Whole number of votes, 549;. necessary to a choice, 275. 

Casteen received 144 Stewart received 110 

Stover " 103 Sims " 89 

Johnson. " 104 

There being no choice, a second ballot was taken, resulting 
as follows: 

Whole number of votes, 563; necessary to a choice, 282. 

Casteen received I<i9 Sims received 94 

Stewart " 107 Joimsou " 93 

Stover ♦♦ 100 

There being no choice, a third ballot was had, as follows: 

Whole number of votes, 550; necessary to a choice, 276. 

Casteen received 166 Stewart received 100 

Sims " 120 Johnson " 70 

Stover ♦' 94 

There being no choice, a fourth ballot was had, as follows: 

Whole number of votes, 561; necessary to a choice, 281. 

Casteen received 153 Johnson received 79 

Stover " 165 Stewart " 46 

Sims ♦' 118 



Tiventy-ninth Republican State Convention. 



41 



Counties. 


o 


1 


ad 


o 

1-5 


< 

6 


Counties. 


t5 
i 


> 


1 


i 

Si; 
H 


5 


Allen 












4 










6 
















6 


A frhiRnTi 


9 








Logan ,... 


2 


1 










3 

4 









9 
5 






Barton . •• 










Marion 


2 






Bourbon 








..'!. 


Marshall 


7 
3 






1 






7 
9 


McPherson 

Meade 


4 
2 
3 








Butler 















2 


2 








i 

5 

7 
5 




^ 




2 


...„. 


3 

1 


Mitchell 






Cherokee 


2 




Montgomery... . 






1 


l^hpvpnnp 


3 




Morris 








Clark 


2 


















Clay 


6 
6 








Nemaha 








7 




Cloud 














3 


3 










6 




Ness 




3 




Comanche . 


2 
8 
9 






Norton . . .. 




5 












3 








10 
















5 






Decatur 


3 

8 






1 


Ottawa 




















2 


1 






Doniphan 







7 





Phillips 


5 




Douglas 


2 


7 




Pottawatomie . . 




7 










2 




Pratt 


4 
2 
9 








Elk 






5 


Rawlins 








9 


Ellis 




3 
4 
















Ellsworth 










Republic 


7 








Finney . . 




3 







Rice 


2 


4 
2 






Ford 


3 




Riley 


3 
















7 


Rooks 




4 




Garfield 


1 




1 




Rush 






3 




'Geary 


4 
2 
3 






Russell 




3 

7 














Saline 










Graham 










Scott 


2 
16 
2 




* 




Grant 


2 

1 
2 









Sedgwick 










Gray 






1 















Greeley . ... 






Shawnee 




20 










7 










3 
3 
5 




** 




2 

5 

- 6 

2 


















Harper 










Smith 








* 


Harvey 










Stafford 


4 
2 
2 
10 




Haskeli 





















Hodgeman . . ,. 




2 






Stevens 








' 








6 




















7 


Thomas 


3 
2 

1 
1 
9 








Jewell„ 




5 


2 


...„. 


Trego 










Johnson 







Wabaunsee 




4 








•2 
5 








Wallace 




1 




Kintiman 










Washington 








Kiowa 






2 
4 


...„. 


Wichita 


3 
1 
4 









Labette 


1 
2 
2 




2 


Wilson. 






5 


* 


Lane 




Woodson 






* 


Leavenworth 




2 


5 




Wyandotte 


15 


::::::::: :::::; 






There being no choice, a fifth ballot was had, as follows: 

Whole number, 561; necessary to choice, 281. 

Sims received 



Stover received 285 

Casteen " 271 



Mr. E. P. McCui^LocH, of Harper county, challenged the cor- 
rectness of the vote as announced. It was verified by the Sec- 
retaries, and finally announced, as follows; 



42 



Twenty-ninth Mepuhlican State Convention. 



Counties. 




'A 


m 


Counties. 




i 




Allen 


6 










6 




Anderfion 


6 




Logan 


3 




Atchi'^on 


9 




Lyon 


9 
2 






3 
4 
10 
8 
9 
3 






3 

7 

1 


2 












Kourbon 






McPherson 


6 
2 
3 




Brown 






Meade 




Butler 








3 
5 

8 






1 
5 




Mitchell 




Chautauqua 




Montgomery 






Cherokee 


8 




Morris 


5 




Cheyenne 


3 




Morton 






Clark 


3 






4 
6 


3 




Clay 


6 
6 
6 








Cloud 




1 


Ness 


3 




Coffey 






5 
10 
5 
5 
1 
5 






2 
10 
9 










Cowle'y 




1 








Crawford 




Ottawa 






Decatur 


4 
8 




Pawnee 


2 










Phillips 






7 
3 






7 
4 
4 
9 


* 


Douglas 


6 
2 
5" 
3 
4 


Pratt 






Edwards 




Rawlins 






Elk 






Reno 






Ellis 






Republic 


7 





Ellswortli 






Rice 


6 




Finney 


3 
3 

7 




Riley 


6 


' 


Ford 






Rooks 


4 




Franklin 






Rush 


3 
3 

7 


' 


Garfield 


1 
4 
2 
3 


1 




Russell 




* 


Geary 






Saline 






Q-ove 






Scott 


2 
16 
2 

1 


' 














Grant 


2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
5 
6 
2 




Seward 




' 


Gray 






Shawnee 


19 
3 
3 
5 


' 


Greeley 






Sheridan ... 






5 










Hamilton 




Smith 












Stafford 


3 

2 
2 
10 




Harvey 






Stanton 




* 


Haskell 






Stevens 






Hodfireman . . 


2 




Sumner 








6 




Thomas 


3 

2 
5 
2 
9 


• 




7 
7 
6 




Treso 




* 


Jewell 






Wabaunsee 




** *** 


Johnson 






Wallace ». 

Washington 






Kearny 


2 
5 






* 








Wichita 


2 
2 
4 


* 


Kiowa 


2 

1 






4 




Labette 


7 
2 
8 




Woodson 




Lane 




Wyandotte . 


15 








1 


Total 




"* 


Lincoln 


4 


285 


272 


5 











Mr. K. P. McCuLLocH, of Harper county: Representing the Republicans of 
Harper county, standing here amid the ruins of some cherished hopes, we pledge 
to Mr. Stover, for Harper county and for the great southwest, a grander Re- 
publican majority than we ever rolled up before. We felt that we had rights 
here, and we have had all our rights. I now move to make the nomination 
of Mr. Stover unanimous. 

A delegate from Sedgwick county: Knowing Mr. Stover to be a man every 
way worthy of her suffrages, Sedgwick joins her neighbor Harper, and seconds 
the motion to make the nomination unanimous. 



Twenty-ninth Rej^vhlican State Convention. 45 

Agreed to, with great enthusiasm. 

Mr. Stovek, being loudly called for, came forward and said: 

I am proud to receive from this Convention the honor of the nomination that 
Has been bestowed upon me. I assure you that I fully appreciate it, coming as 
It does from representative men of the State of Kansas. Gentlemen of the Con- 
vention, I heartily thank you. 

A request being made that all old soldiers among the dele- 
gates show themselves bj rising to their feet, about half the 
delegates rose. 

In response to a similar request, referring to farmers, at least 
three-fourths of the delegates signified that they belonged to the 
tillers of the soil. 

A show of delegates who were members of the Farmers' 
Alliance and Industrial Union, the Farmers' Mutual Benefit 
Association, and the Knights of Labor, was next called for, and 
was responded to by nearly two hundred delegates. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: We have succeeded in nominating a very 
excellent ticket, and we are going to elect it. But in order that we may be 
hampered as little as possible, the resolutions should be taken up and the text 
perfected. 

The Chair: The Chair will rule all dilatory motions out of order, and receive 
the report of the Committee on Resolutions. 

The rep(>rt of the Committee on Resolutions was presented 

by the chairman, Mr. J. K. Hudson, of Shawnee county, as 

follows: 

The Republicans of the State of Kansas now assembled in a convention com- 
posed of more than five hundred delegates, each county being represented by 
duly accredited members, declare their continued adherence to the cardinal 
principles of the national Republican party; express their admiration and grati- 
tude for its past services; and record their conviction that in its future adminis- 
tration of public affairs, it will quickly respond to every demand of the people, 
and, guided by the light of experience, its legislation will be dictated by a 
thoughtful regard for the best interests of the whole people of this Nation. The 
Republican party was born of a great public necessity. Its early youth was 
spent in successful opposition to the extension of slavery. It commenced its 
glorious legislative career by the passage of the homestead act, the most bene- 
ficial law in its results ever enacted by the American Congress. It maintained 
national supremacy and preserved national unity against armed rebellion at 
home and threatened interference from abroad, throughout four years of the 
most colossal warfare recorded in history. By its guiding energies a gigantic 
rebellion was suppressed, an indestructible union of States perpetuated, and 
supremacy of the Union over the States composing it forever established. 

Through its efforts slavery went down in the ruins of the Southern Confeder- 
acy; a slave race was emancipated and guaranteed all the rights of American 
citizenship. It embodied the political truths enumerated in the declaration of 



44 Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 

independence in constitutional provisions and Congressional enactments. It 
has extended our national domain by the acquisition of Alaska, and has added to 
the Uuion the magnificent States of Kansas, West Virginia, Nevada, Nebraska, 
Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho and 
Wyoming. It has maintained the public credit in peace and war; has largely 
decreased the enormous public debt created by the war; and protected the issue 
of greenbacks from judicial repudiation. It has protected our infant indus- 
tries; assisted material development; and improved the public service. 

The legislation of the State of Kansas is more efficient in the protection of 
the rights and more favorable to the interests of the agricultural and laboring 
classes than that of any other State in the Union. The house and lot of the 
laborer, the farm of the agriculturalist, are exempt from forced sale. The 
school books, library, pictures, musical instruments, all the wearing apparel of 
the families, the household furniture, the meat, groceries, vegetables and fuel, 
the horse, cow and all the necessary tools are not subject to execution or attach- 
ment. The earnings of a laborer necessary to the support of his family are pro- 
tected from creditors. A span of horses, two cows, ten hogs, twenty sheep and 
his farming utensils are reserved to the use of the farmer against all forced 
processes of law. The exemption from all taxation of two hundred dollars of 
personal property results entirely to the benefit of the poor nian. Provision is 
made by law whereby railroad contractors have to give bond for the payment 
of the laborer. Every person performing work or furnishing material for the 
construction of houses is assured payment under the provisions of a beneficent 
mechanics-lien law — the last Legislature having provided that the attorney's 
fees, in case of a forced collection, should be paid by the builder or contractor. 
All laborers must be paid in lawful money of the United States, and no one is 
compelled to receive a check, draft or order on a store. Stringent enactments 
are made for the protection of the health and life of those engaged in coal min- 
ing. The railroad companies are made liable for damage to an employe occa- 
sioned by the negligence of its agents or other employes. The earnings of labor 
are protected against garnishment. Arbitration between the laborer and em- 
ployer is provided for. The rights of apprentices are carefully guarded. Pro- 
vision is made for the organization of cooperative societies, whereby they enjoy 
all the rights, privileges and powers that are conferred on other corporations. 
This liberal legislation, aided by the absence of the open saloon, and stimulated 
by a magnificent system of common schools, is the primary cause of our rapid 
settlement and most marvelous material development. The Republican party 
has had uninterrupted control of the legislation of this State ever since its ad- 
mission into the Union, and these laws demonstrate its speedy response to every 
worthy demand made for the protection of the rights of the people. 

We are in favor of the principle of protection as expoimded by that great 
leader of republican thought and policy, Hon, James G. Blaixe, and its en- 
forcement to the extent of giving the American citizen an advantage over the for- 
eign producer, thus enabling him to maintain his industry, and to make such a 
fair profit as will induce others to embark in the same business, believing such a 
policy increases the wages of labor, creates a good home market, and results to 
the benefit of all classes. We want the same degree of protection to be given 
agricultural products that is extended to all other " interests. The commercial 
and industrial interests of this country demand a tariff whose maximum will 
not retard the growth of foreign trade, or unnaturally stimulate prices at home, 
and whose minimum will afford ample protection to every legitimate industry. 
A tariff beyond such a minimum is legislation in the interest of a favored few, 
while a tariff below such a minimum is legislation against labor. 

We believe it to be the highest dictate of the commercial policy of this coun- 
try, to cultivate the most intimate as well as the most extended commercial re- 
lations with our sister republics of the two American continents, and that it 
would be wise and expedient so to adjust our tariff" laws as to promote this end, 
and at the same time adopt such a legislative policy as will compel all countries 



Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 45 

that have exercised a determined discrimination against American products to 
cease such hostility. The State of Kansas by reason of its geographical position 
and the character of its products is most favorably situated for the establish- 
ment of a large and remunerative trade with the neighboring republic of Mexico, 
and we favor the enactment of laws for fostering and encouraging the inter- 
change of the products of the two countries. 

The practical operation of the silver act, now in force, recently passed by a 
Republican majority, and opposed by a Democratic minority, in both houses of 
Congress, is rapidly increasing the value of silver, is a good step in the right di- 
rection, but we, the Republicans of Kansas, demand free coinage of silver, a 
measure strongly opposed and vigorously denounced by the late Democratic 
administration, led by ex-President Grover Cleveland. 

We favor such other legislation as may be necessary to insure an increase of 
the volume of currency adequate to the growing demands of our trade. The 
volume of such currency to be regulated by the necessities of business. 

A law applying to every part of the country, protecting the freedom and 
purity of the ballot box, securing Congressional representation based upon the 
actual vote cast, is imperatively demanded, in the interest of humanity and for 
the preservation of American liberty, and we demand congressional legislation, 
to the end that every honest vote may be polled and every honest ballot counted. 

While the disability pension bill recently passed by Congress is the most lib- 
eral and beneficial measure of the kind ever adopted by any nation, yet we are 
In favor of the passage of a service pension law, believing that by such means 
a greater degree of justice can be rendered the heroic men who preserved the 
life and unity of the nation. 

We demand the passage of laws prohibiting the alien ownership of large 
bodies of land. 

Congress should make immediate provision to encourage and aid the irriga- 
tion of the great body of arid lands, until the brave settlers who have sought 
homes there may fully develop a part of our country so full of latent wealth. 

We believe.it to be the imperative duty of Congress to make a sufficient ap- 
propriation of money, and by all other necessary legislation, to secure to the 
country at the earliest practicable date, deep harbors on the Gulf Of Mexico, to 
be under the ownership and control of .the United States Government, so as to 
afford to this algricultural region the lowest possible freight charges to foreign 
markets. 

We commend the legislation passed by Congress at its present session, and 
the Legislature of this State at its last session, against trusts, combines, and mo- 
nopolies, whose object is to interfere, in any manner, with trade, or control 
either products or their prices ; and we earnestly urge Congress to prevent, by 
proper legislation, all gambling in grain and other agricultural products. 

The administration of national affairs by our present chief magistrate, Beist- 
JAMIN HAREisoisr, has been in line with Republican principles and policy and has 
been responsive to the demands of the people, and is deserving of the most 
hearty commendation. 

We commend our distinguished senators, John J. Ingalls and Preston B. 
Pltjmb for their faithful and inestimable services in the national Congress. 

Ten years' exemption from the evil effects of the traffic in intoxicating 
liquors, secured by a faithful observance of the constitutional amendment and 
the statutes supplemental thereto, by which vice has been lessened and crime 
decreased, leads us to express a determined opposition to any changes in the 
prohibitory legislation of our State, except such as will make the laws stronger 
and more efficient and increase the good order, sobriety and welfare of the people. 

The organization of trades into distinct bodies, binding them together in ties 
so loose as to leave each trade entire independence i* the management of its 
own affairs, yet holding them all together closely enough to insure concerted 
action and mutual assistance, is a powerful factor for the protection of the labor- 
ing masses of this country. The labor organizations have adopted the first day 



46 Twenty -ninth RepiMican State Convention. 

of September in each year as devoted to labor as an entirety and an economic 
force, and as a cause in which hundreds of thousands are enlisted; and we de- 
mand that at the coming session of the legislature this day be declared a legal 
holiday. 

We are in favor of a uniformity of text books in all the schools of the State, 
and demand such legislation as will procure by contract or otherwise, the best 
standard books at the least possible cost. 

We are in favor of electing the Railroad Commissioners by a vote of the peo- 
ple, and we demand of the next Legislature to confer upon the Board of Railroad 
Commissioners ample power to regulate the passenger and freight rates. 

We are in favor of more stringent legislation to compel the various corpora- 
tions organized and transacting business by the authorities of this State, to keep 
their general offices and all the books, records and papers pertaining to all their 
transactions within the limits of the State of Kansas. 

We are in favor of the enactment of a law that will require a rigid examina- 
'tion of all banks and bankers at stated periods, and a public statement of their 
financial condition. 

We favor such a change by legislation as will produce a more effective sys- 
tem of the assessment of property for the purpose of taxation, and a reduction 
of the excessive fees and salaries of public officers, including the public print- 
ing and county officers. 

We demand that the Legislature create a State Board of Arbitration for the 
settlement of questions arising between employes and corporations. 

We demand that the statutes of this State be so amended as to prohibit the 
introduction in this State of cattle liable to Impart the Texas, splenic or Spanish 
fever, at any other time than between the first day of December and the first 
day of the following February. 

We are in favor of so amending our existing laws on the subject of the pay- 
ment of employes of individuals, companies or corporations engaged in manu- 
facturing as to provide for weekly payment of wages in lawful money. 

We are opposed to the system of free passes on railroads now in vogue in 
this State, by reason of which every railroad company is expected, as a matter 
of courtesy, to compliment all State officers, members of the Legislature, judges, 
and other public officers, with free transportation over their respective lines, 
and we favor the suppression of this practice by proper legislation. 

We are in favor of legislation prohibiting the employment of children, under 
the age of fourteen years, in mines, factories, workshops or mercantile establish- 
ments. 

We strongly endorse and approve the administration of the affairs of this 
State, by Governor Lyman U. Humpheey and his associates in the State gov- 
ernment, as being preeminently wise, judicious and economical, and we do es- 
pecially commend the Governor and Attorney General for the energetic and 
effective efforts to promote the execution of all the laws of the State. 

Mr. Philo M. Clark, of Wyandotte county, moved to amend 

the report of the committee, by adding thereto the following: 

Resolved, That we are opposed to Congress granting to the Union Pacific 
Railway Company the extension of time asked for, unless the railroad company 
will relinquish 300 of the 400 feet right of way they now hold through a portion 
of Kaiisas. 

Mr. Philo M. Claek. of Wyandotte county (amid some confusion): I have 
the floor, and I intend to keep it. I have lived in the State of Kansas for thirty 
3'ears. 1 was in the Stajfj^ Constitutional Convention, not as a delegate, but as 
telegraph operator. I sent out the proceedings of that Convention as they were 
given to me by John A. Maetin. (Applause.) 1 have lived here all this time, 



Twenty^iinth Bepublican State Convention. 47 

-and will never Introduce a resolution that is not for the good of Kansas, and for 
the good of the Republican party. 

In the early history of Kansas, when the land was worth nothing, Congress 
granted to the Union Pacific Railway Company a right of way 400 feet wide, 
from the mouth of the Kaw river to Fort Riley. The people wanted to lay out 
a road to Kansas City, and the railroad company enjoined it. That injunction 
stands to-day. When we want to go from Linwood to Kansas City, either with 
a horse and wagon or on foot, on a highway, we can only go at the sufferance 
of the Union Pacific Road. No other railroad can go down the valley of the 
Kaw river, on the north side, so long as the Union Pacific holds this right of 
way. 

They are asking us now to extend their time; they are owing us millions 
•upon millions of dollars; they are asking us to extend the time on this fifty 
years, at a very low rate of interest. All we ask of them to-day is to relinquish 
300 feet of that right of way. Do they need this 400 feet ? (Cries of "No," "No.") 
They tell me here this is a local question. Is it a local question, that the people 
•of Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties cannot go down to the mouth of the 
Kaw without permission of this railroad company ? Is it a local question, that 
we shall allow this wall to stand here that is to keep all other railroads from 
going on the north side of the river? I ask you now, in the name of justice, to 
put this resolution in. 

The question was then put, on the motion to amend the report 
of the Committee on Resolutions by the addition of the resolu- 
tion proposed by Mr. Clakk, and it was agreed to. 

Mr. r. B. Dawes, of Clay county, by request, offered and 
moved the adoption of a resolution recognizing the senior Sen- 
ator of this State, John J. Ingalls, as a true representative of 
Republican principles, a fearless champion of the best interests 
of the Nation, and especially a champion of all measures for 
advancing the interests of old soldiers, and earnestly advocat- 
ing his return to the United States Senate by the incoming 
Legislature. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: I trust there will be no disposition, in the 
few minutes that are left to us, to take up time needlessly. There is no more 
important part of this business than the making of the platform. Let us go 
about it like good Republicans. There is a disposition here to curtail this plat- 
form, and I tell you that, as I have thought it over, it is a better platform than 
some of you think. I may want to preach from this text, and — I don't know, 
but it seems to me, that the resolution in the platform indorsing Ingalls is 
sufficient. Let us not go on and spread over a great mass of matter without 
•doing him any good. The resolution in the platform is strong, decisive and to 
the point. John J. Ingalls will be returned to the Senate; don't you worry 
about that. I hope the resolution will not be pressed. I want to hear the res- 



48 Twenty-ninth Hepiihlican State Convention. 

olution about the silver question and the resohition about the tariff read again. 
I want to have a fair understanding as to what they mean. 

Mr. Geo. T. Anthony, of Franklin county: Your committee of thirty-five 
met together last evening, with the determination that we would make a decla- 
ration of principles for the Republican party that we could all stand upon; but 
before commencing our work we agreed and understood, in that committee room, 
sir, that we would be agreed upon the platform if we sat for three weeks, and 
that the report to you would represent our united judgment. During the pend- 
ency of the resolutions that we reported, a resolution substantially like that pre- 
sented by the gentleman from Clay county was before the committee. He was 
a member of that committee, and had an opportunity to be heard. The com- 
mittee at that time reached the conclusion that It was not the proper thing for 
us to do, that it was not the proper thing for this Convention to do, to make any 
kind of discrimination between the two great men who represent Kansas at 
Washington. Hence the resolution reported by the committee represents the 
judgment of the committee on this matter. It is as strong as the English lan- 
guage can make it, in expressing our confidence in those representative men. 
Why, then, single out one above the other for special commendation ? When 
we say we love them both, why in God's name shall we take out the name of 
one, and say the same thing over again ? 

Mr. F. B. Dawes, of Clay county: Having offered the resolution by request, 
I desire to be heard upon it. There is not a man on this floor more loyal to 
Preston B. Plumb than I am, but he has nothing to look for from the next 
Legislature. John J. Ingalls must be elected by the next Legislature, or he 
must be defeated. We want something for those who are voting for the mem- 
bers of the next Legislature to think about. We want the voters to know, 
when they cast their ballots for the members of the next Legislatm-e, that the 
candidates are pledged for that champion of the soldier, that prince of states- 
men, John J. Ingalls. We want now, at the time when Senator Ingalls 
comes before the people for indorsement, we want the people to know that it is 
the sense of this Convention that he should be returned. With this resolution 
in there, every old soldier will say by his ballot to L. L. Polk and his other ex- 
rebel associates: "Go back to your Southern homes. The party of Abraham 
Lincoln, of James G. Blaine, is a good enough party for me." 

Mr. J. M. McNay, of Phillips county: As Commander of Phillipsburg Post, 
Ko. 77, and President of the Soldiers' Association, of Phillips county, I believe 
I speak the sentiments of a large body of old soldiers when I say we should 
adopt this resolution. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: Before we come to this vote, I wish the 
Secretary would read the resolution in relation to Senator Ingalls, as reported 
by the committee. 

The resolution was read by the Secretary. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: I desire to say now, in explanation of my 
vote, that this resolution, in my judgment, ought not to pass in this shape. But 
if It fails, I will move to add to the resolution in the report of the committee, 



Tv^enty-nintli Repiiblican State Convention, 49 

that we favor the election of John J. Ingalls. I ask unanimous consent to 
offer this as a substitute. 

The Chair: When we are unanimous as one man, we can do anything, as we 
adjourned last night. (Laughter.) 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: I now move as a substitute for the resolu- 
tion offered by the gentleman from Clay county, that there be added to the res- 
olution as reported by the committee on resolutions: "And we favor the return 
of John J. Ingalls to the United States senate." 

There being no objection, it was so ordered. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: Now, Mr. Chairman, that we may have a 
clear and distinct understanding of the important resolutions, I ask for the read- 
ing of the resolution in relation to protection, and in relation to the free coinage 
of silver. 

The resolutions were read bj the Secretary. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: I state to you frankly, that for one I believe 
it to be the part of wisdom to adopt the report of the committee without further 
change. I say to you now, as a Republican, that the party can go to the State 
without fear. 

Mr. W.T . Walker, of Sumner county, moved to amend the 

report of the Committee on Resolutions, by adding thereto the 

following: 

Resolved, That the next Legislature should so amend the laws relating to 
foreclosure and sale of real estate under mortgage contract as shall secure the 
mortgagor the privilege of redeeming such real estate, at any time within 
twenty-four months from date of such foreclosure sale, by the payment of the 
judgment and of legal interest from date of sale to date of redemption. 

Mr. Geo. T. Anthony, of Franklin county: That resolution was before the 
committee, was carefully considered, and it was unanimously determined that 
it was against the interest of the people of Kansas, whether in debt or out of 
debt, to pass that resolution at this time. 

Mr. W. T. Walker, of Sumner county: I do not know what reason the com- 
mittee had to reject that unanimously. It may not be to the interest of gentle- 
men engaged in money loaning, but, in justice to the people of this country, 
something of that kind ought to be done. The idea advanced by gentlemen 
opposed to this resolution, that it will advance the rate of interest, is on its face 
an absurdity.^ I can cite the gentlemen to States that have always had upon 
their statute books redemption laws, and instead of the interest rate being 
greater, it is much lower than the prevailing Kansas rate, and the expense of 
negotiating loans is less. Whether the Convention incorporates this resolution 
in the platform or not, I am still of the opinion that it is the thing to do, in the 
interest of the people of Kansas and of the Republican party. 

The question was put on the adoption of the resolution, and 
it was declared lost. 

— 4 



50 Tioenty Plinth Mepullican State Convention. 

A call was made for a division, but some confusion prevail- 
ing, the Chairman did not notice the call while endeavoring to 
obtain order. 

At this time (while the confusion was very great) Mr. A. H. 
Ellis, of Mitchell county, was recognized by the Chair, and 
said: 

Mr. Chairman, this is a Kepiiblican convention, and its members are fair 
enough, honest enough and brave enough to consider and determine any politi- 
cal or economic question that may come before it. I voted against the resolu- 
tion of the gentleman from Sumner county, and I shall desire to be heard in 
opposition to it, but I am heartily in favor of giving it a fair hearing — of al- 
lowing a full discussion for and against the resolution, and to this end I move a 
reconsideration of the question. (Cries of "That's right," "That's the talk," 
*'No gag here," etc.) 

The Chair: If the Convention desires to further discuss the matter, the 
chair will hold that the whole question is now before the Convention for dis- 
cussion, without putting the motion of the gentleman from Mitchell county. 
(Cries of "Consent," "Consent," from all parts of the hall.) 

Mr. A. H. Ellis, of Mitchell county: I realize to-day that the condition of 
the farmer with a mortgage upon his farm is anything but a happy one. I re- 
alize that for his benefit — to help him in his hour of need — this Convention 
should do all it can do. But. I am thoroughly convinced that this resolution 
will do a great deal of harm. We need in this State low rates of interest. 
The mortgages in this State are not being carried by local capital, but by the 
funds of Eastern investors. I am not a loan agent and never had anything to 
do with loaning money for Eastern capitalists — indeed, my personal interests 
might in some measure be benefited were foreign capital drawn out of the State 
— but it is a matter of grave doubt whether the people of Kansas generally, 
and especially the debtor class, can afford it. It is a matter for you to consider 
whether you can afford to have an already high rate of interest further raised,^ 
as it certainly would be by the adoption of a two years' statute of redemption, 
the inevitable effect of which would be to prevent the renewal of farm loans at 
anything like existing rates. I submit that such a measure would be ruinous to 
the best interests of Kansas. 

Mr. F. E. GiLLETT, of Kingman county: I come from a county where, at 
three terms of court, more than one hundred mortgages were foreclosed every 
term. 1 am a member of the bar, where 1 know what these things are. My 
county demands a redemption law, and the Judicial District in which I live de- 
mands a redemption law, and I believe the western half of the State of Kansas 
unanimously demands this of the Legislature that we shall elect this fall. 

It was moved to amend the pending resolution, by striking 

out the words "twenty-four m'onths," and inserting in place 

thereof, twelvemonths. 



Ticeiity -ninth Hevtthlican State Convention. 51 

Mr. T. T. Taylor, of Reno: Mr. Chairman, I think the Republican party of 
the State of Kansas owes as much to the State of Kansas, owes as much to the 
people of the State of Kansas, as it does to Eastern capitalists, as much as it 
does to the loan agents. The pioneers have made it what it is — matchless 
among the States. Without a redemption law, in a short time, they will be 
driven from their homes, which will pass into the hands of the mortgage com- 
panies for a small fraction of their value, while a large portion of the judgment 
will hang over the respective mortgagors and paralyze their future enterprise. 
Their earnings will be swept away by executions as rapidly as they shall ex- 
ceed the statutory exemptions. They must leave the State or be the slaves of 
the respective sheriffs. If they shall emigrate, you will have to attract others 
from the East to supply their places; therefore, why not resolve so as to retain 
those who have contributed to give the State its glory. The Republicans of 
Reno county instructed us to press the adoption of this resolution upon the Con- 
vention. The Republicans of Harvey, Rice and Marion counties have, through 
the resolutions of their respective conventions, seconded us in this effort. The 
Senate at its last session voted against an equity of redemption; therefore, we 
want this Convention to instruct Republican Senators, through this resolution, 
as to the necessities of the people and the demand of the party. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: No resolution that you can pass can in- 
struct the Legislature to pass an act that is absolutely unconstitutional. You 
cannot change the condition of the people that have already had their mortgages 
foreclosed, and that are being ousted. However much it may be deplored, and 
I deplore it as much as anybody can, you can do nothing that will apply to the 
past, but only to the future. 

Mr. A. H. Ellis, of Mitchell county: All legislation is the result of compro- 
mise. Accept this compromise that is offered, and go to the people with the 
best thing you can get. 

Mr.WALKEK, of Sumner county, the mover of the resolution, 

then asked unanimous consent to amend by substituting twelve 

months for *' twenty-four months," but objections were made. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: Then move to amend by making it one 
year, instead of two. 

It was moved to amend the resolution, as suggested. 

Mr. S. S. KiEKPATEicK, of Wilson county: The first bill introduced in the 
Senate of this State, at its last session, was a bill to grant the relief contem- 
plated by this resolution. The bill was referred to the Committee on Judiciary 
and the constitutionality of the bill thoroughly considered, and while the bill 
was permitted to go to the committee of the whole Senate, I believe no member 
of the committee entertained a doubt of its unconstitutionality, and it was 
rejected for that reason. Being powerless to afford relief as to the existing 
mortgages, it would be unwise to provide a redemption for future mortgages. 
Having a mortgage on my own farm, which it may become necessary to renew, 
I want no obstruction then in my way, and I confidently believe that the meas- 



52 Twenty -ninth Republican State Convention. 

ure offered would materially injure those who are situated as myself. I there- 
fore protest against the passage of this resolution. 

The question was then put on the motion to amend the reso- 
lution so as to insert twelve months^ in place of "twenty-four 
months," and it was agreed to. 

The motion to amend the report of the Committee on Reso- 
lutions, by adding thereto the resolution offered by Mr. W. T. 
Walker, wao tlien agreed to. 

Mr. A. H. Tanner, of Bourbon county, moved to further 
amend the report of the Committee on Resolutions by the ad- 
dition of the following: 

Whereas, The cattle syndicates of the West are permitted to occupy the 
public domain for use in a business which is in direct competition with the 
farmers of the State: therefore, be it 

Resolved, That we ask Congress to provide such suitable rental or tax as will 
place them off from a position of favoritism and bring them into fair and equal 
competition with those who own their lauds and pay taxes on them as well as 
the cattle. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: If this is going to elicit any discussion, I 
would like to have the resolutions as reported, and as amended up to this time^ 
voted upon. I would move that this resolution be referred to the Committee on 
Taxation of the next Legislature. 

Mr. A. H. Taxxeb, of Bourbon coimty: We have nothing to do with the next 
Legislature. 

The Chairman then put the question on the motion, and it 
was agreed to. 

The report of the Committee on Resolutions, as amended, 
was then adopted. 

Mr. F. E. GiLLETT, of Kingman county: I understand just exactly what a 
movement of this kind means. I anticipated that the delay in consideration of 
these resolutions would bring about exactly this state of affairs. I desired, be- 
fore these resolutions were adopted as a whole, to call attention to the phrasiage 
of the resolution which says that "the present silver-coinage act is a step in the 
right direction, but we demand the free coinage of silver." I desire to offer a 
resolution, and the resolution that I desire to offer is this: 

Resolved, That we favor and demand a repeal of that ^ection of the present 
silver-coinage act which provides, that when the contract so specifies debts shall 
not be payable in silver certificates issued under that act. 

The Chair: If the gentleman will move to adopt the resolution as a part of 
the platform, I will put the question. 

Mr. F. E. GiELETT, of Kingman county: I move you. sir, the adoption of the 
resolution, as read by me, as a part of the platform. To the extent that the bill 
provides that silver certificates shall not be received in payment of debts, it is a 



Twenty-ninth Republican State Convention. 63 

demonetization of silver. It is a fact that we have declared that the passage of 
that act is a step in the right direction. Is it a fact that we have taken a step 
in that direction when we have provided to such an extent for the demonetiza- 
tion of silver? I say it is a step in the wrong direction M^hen you add anything 
to that bill that provides for the demonetization of silver, and to that extent it 
is wrong. The people of my section of the State are to a man opposed to it. 
They believe that these certificates, when issued upon bullion deposited, should 
be receivable for all debts, both public and private. I believe that, so far as the 
interests of the people of this State are concerned, they are injured by such a 
provision. I believe that I voice the sentiment of the people of this State, 
when I say that silver certificates ought to be receivable for all debts, public 
and private. The people of Kansas are debtors. They cannot, as such, and 
in their present circumstances, dictate the terms of their financial contracts, 
especially in the renewal of mortgages. And for the Nation to be so tender of 
the money loaner, guarding him against a rise or fall in the value of silver cer- 
tificates, is to ignore the interests and welfare of the great army of wage earn- 
ers, as well as the sturdy yeomanry of the country. 

Mr. E. W. Blue, of Linn county: I move that the resolution be laid on the 
table. 

Mr. Geo. T. Anthony, of Franklin county: Dont let us gag any one here. I 
hope that motion will be withdrawn. I hope when we go out of this hall to-day 
it can be said every man has been heard. 

Mr. E. W. Blue, of Linn county: I withdraw the motion, if any one wishes 
to talk upon it. 

Mr. Geo. T. Anthony, of Franklin county: I want to talk upon it. Now 
listen to me a moment. I understand you wanted to hear me yesterday, when 
I was not h^re, when I was in the committee room. When the State Conven- 
tion meets, it is utterly impossible that it should enter into ever provision of 
every bill before Congress. Every member of the committee thought that the 
platform covered the whole of the ground at issue. A resolution of general 
principles is much better than a lot of fine work, going into details. This ques- 
tion was discussed for four weary hours in committee, last evening, and every 
man had his say. The law referred to was one that was passed by Kepublicans 
in both houses of Congress, with a united Democratic vote against it in both 
houses. Can we afford to say here that the Republicans are wrong and the 
Democrats right about this ? (Cries of • ' No," "No.") We have said our Senators 
have acted wisely and well, yet both Senators voted for this bill, which is here 
denounced as a crime. Let us see to it that we are consistent, and that we do 
not begin to make discord in the platform before we leave the hall. We be- 
lieve this is a step in the right direction, because bar silver has appreciated to 
more than half the difference between the price of silver and the price of gold 
at the hour of its adoption. Silver has appreciated nineteen cents an ounce 
since the passage of this bill. Now I say to you that if we let this legislation 
stand, eighteen months will not pass before silver bullion will be at par with 
gold bullion in the United States. I appeal to you, as Republicans, that you 
stand by the record made by Republicans in the Congress of the United States. 



64: Twenty-ninth Bepublican State Convention. 

Mr. F. E. GiLLETT, of Kingman county: Is it not a fact, Governor, tha* 
whenever the bullionists, a score of whom are members of the United States 
Senate, take bullion to the treasury and deposit it, they take advantage of that 
very provision, and have the certificates made payable in gold ? 

Mr. Geo. T. Anthony, of Franklin county: I am glad that you have asked 
that question, for I am glad to have an opportunity to answer it. When farmers 
are asking to have three-fourths of a dollar made a dollar, they should insist 
that three pecks be made a bushel. The Treasurer of the United States states 
that Senator Stewart, of Nevada, who is the oracle of silver, never took a 
draft that he did not have written across the face of it, "Payable in gold." 
When we reach the point that silver is at par with gold, when we say a dollar's 
worth of silver shall represent a dollar, we will put silver at par — we will make 
Senator Stewart rich without his making us poor. 

Mr. F. E. Gillett, of Kingman county: It is true that we discussed this^ 
question last night in the committee, for several hours, and much was said upon 
the question. Governor Anthony spoke much as he has now. It is not that 
we should indorse what our servants do, but that these men should indorse 
what we want them to do. Has it come to this, that the tail shall wag the dog,^ 
or shall the dog wag the tail? I desire that the Republican party shall do that 
thing which is best for the people, and what the people demand. 

Mr. H. B. Kelley, of McPherson: As I understand the resolution of the 
gentleman from Kingman, it is that the silver certificates issued under the pro- 
visions of this act shall perform the functions of money. We, in the western 
part of this country, have been hewers of wood and drawers of water for a long 
while, and the question now is, whether we are to pronounce in favor of silver 
as money, or as merchandise. When Senator Plumb's bill was up in the Senate 
— and I want to say he is the ablest practical statesman in that body 7— when 
Senator Plumb's bill was in the Senate, declaring that 4123^ grains of standard 
silver should constitute a dollar, the entire eastern end of the country rose up 
and pronounced it vicious legislation. Following this came the present law, 
which was supported almost entirely by the solid East; the Eastern press re- 
joicing that silver is still but merchandise, under the law. 

Attention was called to the fact that Senators Plitimb and 
Ingalls voted in favor of an amendment embodying substan- 
tially the proposition in the pending resolution, when the bill 
was up in the Senate; and Senator Plumb voted for a bill to 
make silver legal tender for all debts, whether in the contract 
or not. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: I now renew my motion to lay the resolu- 
tion upon the table. 

On a division of the house, the motion was agreed to; aves, 
322; noes, 131. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: I call for the reading of that portion of 



Twenty-ninth Bejncblican State Convention. 55 

the order of business relating to the appointment of committees, so that we can 
see how it is to be done. 

The matter asked for was read by the Secretary. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: Following the precedent of two years ago, 
I move that the Chairman of this Convention be a committeeman at large. 

The motion was seconded, and being put to the house by Mr. 

Blue, it was agreed to. 

Mr. R. W. Blue, of Linn county: Now, Mr. Chairman, while I have the floor, 
I make this suggestion, that the committeemen be constituted by appointment 
of the Chair, on the suggestion of the delegations from the Congressional and 
Judicial Districts. 

The Chair: If this motion prevails, I want the delegations to get together, 
and select their men. 

The question was put, and the motion was agreed to. 

Pending the naming of the members of the committee, 

Mr. T. T. Taylor, of Reno county, moved the adoption of 

the following resolution: 

Resolved, That the sincere thanks of this Convention, and of the Republican 
party of Kansas, are due and are hereby tendered to Hon. Heney Booth, late 
Chairman, of the Republican State Central Committee, and Hon. Bion S. 
HuTCHiNS, late Secretary of the Republican State Central Committee, for the 
able and efficient manner in which they conducted the last campaign. 

Agreed to. 
It was also 

Resolved) That the thanks of this Convention are hereby tendered to Hon. R. 
F. Moore, Chairman of this Convention, for the distinguished ability and im- 
partiality with which he has presided over the deliberations of the Convention, 
and that the gavel used by him as Chairman be presented to him, as a memento 
of his services on this occasion. 

Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention are due, and they ar€ hereby 
tendered, to C. C. Baker, for printing and furnishing to the delegates the roster 
of the Convention, and to Geo. W. Crane, for printing badges. 

The members of the State Central Committee for the several 
Districts were then announced, as follows: 

First Congressional District: Dr. L. L. Terwilliger, of Leavenworth. 
Second Congressional District: S. B. McLamore, of Fort Scott. 
Third Congressional District: S. S. Kirkpatrick, of Fredonia. 
Fourth Congressional District: L. E. Finch, of Barlingame. 
Fifth Congressional District: T. F. Garvek, of Salina. . 
Sixth Congressional District: F. M. Lockard, of Norton. 
Seventh Congressional District: Will T. Walker, of Wellington. 
First Judicial District: C. F. Johnson, Oskaloosa. 
Second Judicial District: L. F. Randolph, Atchison. 
Third Judicial District: M. T. Campbell, Topeka. 



56 Twenty -7ii7ith Bepublican State Convention, 

Fourth Judicial District: A. Fkaxklin, Ottawa. 
Fifth Judicial District: D. W. Eastmax, Emporia. 
Sixth Judicial District: George AY. Pye, Cherokee. 
Seventh Judicial District: E. J. Kexney, Osage Mission. 
Eighth Judicial District: O. L. Moore, Abilene. 
Ninth Judicial District: A. L. Green, Newton. 
Tenth Judicial District: T. A. Johxsox, Paola. 
Eleventh Judicial District: J. H. Smith, Columbus. 
Twelfth Judicial District: J. B. Besack, Washington. 
Thirteenth Judicial District: Adrian Reynolds, Sedan. 
Fourteenth Judicial District: O. L. Atherton, Russell. 
Fifteenth Judicial District: S. H. Dodge, Beloit. 
Sixteenth Judicial District: W. S. Kenyon, Jetmore. 
Seventeenth Judicial D istrict: J. R. Sedgwick, McDonald. 
Eighteenth Judicial District: James H. Mercer, "Wichita. 
Nineteenth Judicial District: R. T. Simons, Caldwell. 
Twentieth Judicial District: Geo. W. C. Shutter, St. John. 
Twenty-first Judicial District: A. Kirkwood, Marjsville. 
Twenty-second Judicial district, R. M. Emery, Seneca. 
Twenty-third Judicial District: Fkan^x Danford, Hays City. 
Twenty-fourth Judicial District: Frank Holmes, Dodge City. 
Twenty-fifth Judicial District: J. Ware Butterfield, Florence. 
Twenty-sixth Judicial District: D. B. Fuller, Eureka. 
Twenty-seventh Judicial District: Lafayette Sims, Dodge City. 
Twentj^-eighth Judicial District: Morton Albaugh, Kingman. 
Twenty-ninth Judicial District: W. J. Buchan, Kansas City, Kas, 
Thirtieth Judicial District: A. P. Riddle, Minneapolis. 
Thirty-first Judicial District: Ben. E. Page, Ashland. 
Thirty-second Judicial District; Peter Bowers, Ulysses. 
Thirty-third Judicial District; C. P. Lynn, Ness City. 
Thirty-fourth Judicial District: H. E. Don Carlos, Goodland. 
Thirty-fifth Judicial District; James Carroll, Alma. 

Adjourned sine die. 



APPENDIX. 



The Platforms of 18 9 O, 

OPPOSED TO THAT OF THE REPDBLICAN PARTY. 



PEOPLE'S PAKTY PLATFORM. 

The people's party of Kansas, in delegation this day assembled, recognize 
Almighty God as the rightful sovereign of nations, and from whom all just 
powers of government are derived, and to whose will all human enactments 
ought to conform; and whereas the convention is composed of all shades of 
political belief; and whereas we have agreed that the great questions of labor, 
land, transportation and finance are the economic questions before the country 
and the world: therefore we set forth the following as the great underlying 
principles of the questions aforesaid as exemplified in the St. Louis demands : 

LABOR AND LAND. 

Labor is the beginning of progress, the formation of the world, and the 
laborer is entitled to a good living and a fair share of the profits which result 
from his labor. 

Second — The use of labor-saving machinery should shorten the hours of 
toil, and inure to the benefit of the employed equal with the employer. 

The earth is the common heritage of the people ; every person born into the 
world, is entitled equally with all others to a place to live, and earn a living, 
and any system of government that does not maintain and protect this inalien- 
able right is wrong and should be changed or abolished. 

^ PENSIONS. 

We favor a service pension to every union soldier, and we believe that jus- 
tice demands that the difference between the depreciated currency in which the 
union soldiers were paid, and gold in which they were to be paid, should be 
made good ; and as full and complete faith be kept by the government with the 
soldiers as with the bond holders, and that ex-prisoners of war be remunerated 
for the time ssrved in prison. 

The St. Louis platform is also adopted, as follows: 

NATIONAL BANKS — CURRENCY. 

1. We demand the abolition of national banks, and the substitution of legal 
tender treasury notes, in lieu of national-bank notes, issued in sufficient volume 
to do the business of the country on a cash system, regulating the amount needed 
on a per capita basis, as the business interests of the country expand; and that 
all money issued by the government shall be legal tender in payment of all 
debts, both public and private. 

2. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver. 

SPECULATION IN PRODUCTS. 

3. We demand that congress shall pass such laws as shall effectually pre- 
vent the dealing in futures in all agricultural and mechanical productions, pre- 
serving such a stringent system of procedure in trials as shall secure prompt 
conviction, and imposing such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compli- 
ance with the law. 



ii DEMO OR A TIC PL A TFORM. 

RECOVERY OF LANDS. 

4. We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land, and 
that congress take earlj^, steps to devise some plan to obtain all lands now owned 
by aliens and foreign syndicates; and that all lauds now held by railroads and 
other corporations, in excess of such as are actually used and needed by them, 
be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. 

TAXATION — REVENUE. 

5. Believing in the doctrine of "equal rights to all and special privileges to 
none " we demand that taxation, national or state, shall not fte used to build up 
one interest or class at the expense of another. 

We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible 
in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all revenues, national, 
state and county, shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government 
economically and honestly administered. 

FRACTIONAL CURRENCY. 

6. We demand that congress provide for the issue of a sufficient amount of 
fractional paper currency to facilitate exchange through the medium of the 
United States mail. 

COMMUNICATION AND TRANSPORTATION. 

7. We demand that the means of communication and transportation shall 
be owned by and operated in the interest of the people, as is t^e United States 
postal system. 

THE PAST IS GONE. 

People of Kansas, we come to you on this platform. Our candidates, speak- 
ers and writers will waste no time discussing minor matters. The past is gone, 
the present is with us, and the future is before us. Old issues are dead. We 
come to you with new ones. 

Be it resolved, first — Thai all freight cars be equipped with the automatic air 
brakes and safety coupling appliances. 

Second — That we are opposed to the Blair bill as now pending before con- 
gress relating to arbitration of labor disputes. 

Third — That the board of labor arbitration be appointed to settle all labor 
disputes, consisting of three members, of whom one shall be chosen by the em- 
ployer, one by the employe and third by the other two. 

Fourth — That we are opposed to the importation of Pinkerton detectives by 
railroad companies for the purpose of coercing employes. 

Fifth — That we are opposed to the conspiracy law as now on the statute 
books of our state affecting railway employes. 



DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. 

We, the representatives of the democratic party of Kansas, in convention as- 
sembled, declare: 

First — Our continued opposition to all paternalism in government, state and 
national, as tending to a centralization inconsistent with the principles of per- 
sonal and political freedom, which were the aim of our fathers and the hope of 
their posterity. 

ECCLESIASTICISM. 

Second — We deplore the tendency manifested by the preacher politician who 
poses as the leader of the republican party in this state toward ecclesiasticism 
in the management of public affairs, which would make religious belief the test 
of eligibility for political preferment, and declare our unalterable opposition 
thereto. 



DEMOGRATIG PLATFORM, iii 

FEDERAL ELECTIONS BILL. 

Third — We declare that creature of republican necessity, the federal elec- 
tions bill, known as the force law, to be a legitimate offspring of the party which 
filched a president, and whose leaders are willing to sacrifice for place and 
power the liberties of their fellow citizens. 

TARIFF — COINAGE — CURRENCY. 

Fourth — We favor a tariff law based upon public necessities and not upon 
the greed and demand of capital. 

Fifth — We favor the free coinage of silver. 

Sixth — We favor such change in our fiscal laws as will leave the control of 
the circulating medium of the country wholly in the hands of the government. 

PENSIONS. 
Seventh — We favor liberal and just pension laws as a rightful recognition of 
a great debt due by the country to all deserving union soldiers. 

SYMPATHY WITH LABOR. 

Eighth — The democracy is a party of wage earners and producers, and we 
but speak for ourselves when we express our sympathy for labor in its struggles 
with the insatiate money power, whether in the factory or on the farm. 

RESUBMISSION. 

Ninth — ^We are opposed to all sumptuary legislation, and demand the earliest 
resubmission of the so-called prohibitory amendment to a vote of the electors, 
and an immediate repeal of the laws passed in the interest of prohibition, which 
confer dangerous powers upon the courts and substantially deprive the citizens 
of trial by jury and local self-government, and we declare unequivocally for 
high license and local option. 

McKINLEY BILL. 
Tenth — ^We arraign the republican members of the present national house 
of representatives from Kansas for their unanimous vote for the McKinley bill, 
which, as Hon. James Gillespie Blaine said, would not provide a market for a 
single bushel of Kansas wheat, or a single barrel of Kansas pork. We condemn 
this vote as being in the interest of the manufacturers of the east and against 
the farmers and working men of Kansas. 

SENATOR INGALLS. 

Eleventh — As the republicans of this state, in their late convention, made 
John James Ingalls an issue in this campaign, we are compelled to ask the peo- 
ple of Kansas to repudiate a man who, in a widely-circulated interview, de- 
nounced reform in politics as an "iridescent dream," declared that "the 
decalogue has no place in politics," and expressed the belief that the use of 
money in campaigns, and the employment of hired Hessians, were justifiable. 

PROHIBITION. 
Twelfth — We believe that prohibition has brought upon the people of this 
state incalculable evils, and has tended to produce, as its legitimate results, per- 
jury and bribery; has corrupted the very foundations of justice by a system of 
hired spies and informers, and made at times our courts a disgrace in the ad- 
ministration of public justice. 

HIGH LICENSE — LOCAL OPTION. 
Thirteenth- — We declare emphatically in favor of high license and local op- 
tion, and recommend a law providing that for each license issued for the sale 
of liquor $500 shall be paid to the county treasurer for the purpose of making 
and improving county roads, and that the city municipalities shall in addition 
fix such sums as the mayor and councils may determine. 



iv BE 8 UB MISSION REP UBLICAN PL A TFOBM. 

KEGULATION OF EAILROADS. 

Fourteenth — We are emphatically in favor df the exercise by the legisla- 
ture of its imdoiibted powers to regulate the operation« of railroads in this 
state, to the end that passenger and freight rates shall be equal, reasonable and 
fair. There is no legal right in railroads to charge a small shipper a higher 
rate than a large one, nor is it just for common carriers to charge a higher sum 
for the transportation of agricultural products than of any merchandise. 

IRRIGATION —DEEP HARBORS. 

Fifteenth— Wq favor a liberal appropriation by congress for the purpose of 
thoroughly testing the practicability of irrigation in the western portion of this 
state, and also in favor of a liberal appropriation by congress for a deep water 
harbor on the Gulf of Mexico, and it is the judgment of this convention 
that the railroads of the state should be required to pay taxes upon the full 
amount of their capital. 



KESUBMISSION EEPUBLICAN PLATFORM. 

The resubmission republicans of Kansas, in convention assembled, Invite 
the attention of the intelligent and liberal-minded voters of all parties to the 
following declaration of principles: 

We renew our pledge of unwavering loyalty to the principles of the national 
republican party, which has ever been foremost in championing the rights and 
liberties of all the people, and its management of affairs has been inspired by a 
statesmanship as broad and catholic in spirit as to command the admiration and 
approval of the lovers of liberty and defenders of human rights everywhere. 

RECIPROCITY. 

We are heartily in favor of the wise and far-seeing policy of reciprocity as 
advocated by Secretary Blaine and President Harrison. 

HONEST ADMINISTRATION. 

We are in favor of a rigidly honest and economical administration of all the 
business of the state, to the emd that taxation be reduced and the burdens of 
the people lightened. 

ABOLITION. 

We are in favor of the abolishment by law of the offices of election commis- 
sioner, assistant attorney general, police commissioners, county auditor and jury 
commissioners, and other useless and expensive offices, and a reduction of the 
fees of such officers as now receive many times more than their services are 
worth to the people. 

PROHIBITION. 

We are opposed to prohibition. Ten years' trial has demonstrated its total 
inefficiency as a temperance measure; that it is a revival of the obsolete form 
of paternal government and entirely opposed to the genius and spirit of the age; 
that it is at enmity with the fundamental principles of our civilization and de- 
stroys that inalienable right of the citizen to determine for himself by what 
method he will preserve his own happiness without interference with the rights 
of others, which principle is the basis of our liberties and the hope of our insti- 
tutions; that it is un-American and un-republican and un-democratic and not in 
harmony with the purposes and spirit of our institutions and laws; that the ex- 
istence of the prohibitory law is a perpetual menace to the material interests of 
the state; that it burdens us with taxation; that it deprives us of all control of 
the liquor traffic and all revenue therefrom; that it drives away population; that 



RESUBMISSION REPUBLICAN PLA TFORM. y 

it prevents immigration; that it makes the building of large cities within the 
state impossible; that it encourages perjury; that it makes more hypocrites 
than all other agencies combined; that it does not lessen crime or pauperism; 
that it does not empty jails, penitentiaries, lunatic asylums or alms houses; and 
believing that any public measure in the hands of an enlightened people is ab- 
solutely safe, we demand that the question of the repeal of the prohibitory 
amendment to the constitution be submitted to the people at as early a date as 
possible. 

REGULATION OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC. 

We are in favor of strict laws for the regulation of the liquor traflBc, and as 
a substitute for prohibition we favor high license and local option, with such 
restrictions and regulations as shall protect our homes and guard our youth 
from the dangers now surrounding them resulting from the unrestrained liquor 
traffic that now exists under prohibition. We recommend that the minimum 
license be fixed at $600, and the maximum at $1,200, the money collected to be 
applied so as to lessen the burdens of taxation in counties and municipalities, 
and the construction of roads, the building of bridges, and to the support of 
public schools. 

LABOR AND CAPITAL. 

We recognize the dignity of labor, and that it is the primary source of all le- 
gitimate wealth, and are, therefore, in favor of the enactment of such reasona- 
ble and just laws as will secure labor its just reward in competition with capital. 
And we favor the enactment of a law designating the first Monday of Septem- 
ber of each year as a legal holiday. We are in favor of the enactment of equit- 
able redemption laws. We are opposed to the employment of convict labor in 
competition with free labor. > 

TAX SALES AND PENALTIES. 
We denounce the law relative to the sale of land for delinquent taxes as op- 
pressive, and demand that the penalty now imposed, and the interest now al- 
lowed on tax-sale certificates, which is twenty-four per cent., be reduced at 
least one-half. 

FREE COINAGE OF SILVER. 

We are i^n favor of the free coinage of silver, and such an increase in the vol- 
ume of the currency as will meet the increasing demands of trade, and prevent 
the depression in business and price of farm products and labor consequent 
upon the scarcity of money. 

TARIFF LAWS. 

We are in favor of such modification of the present tariff laws as will give 
equal protection and encouragement to all the legitimate industries of the entire 
country, including the vast agricultural interests of the great west. 

We are in favor of that broad statesmanship which rises above mere sec- 
tional interests, and recognizes the equality of the entire sisterhood of states, 
and extends to all equal encouragement and protection. 

BANKRUPT LAW. 
We are in favor of the enactment by congress of a well guarded and equit- 
able bankrupt law. 

DEEP AVATER HARBOR. 
We are in favor of a deep water harbor at some suitable point on the Gulf of 
Mexico, and urge our senators and representatives in congress to labor for a 
liberal appropriation for that purpose. 

IRRIGATION. 
We are in favor of a liberal appropriation by congress for the purpose of in- 
stituting a system of irrigation in the western portion of this state, with a view 
to reclaiming the rich alluvial lands of that section. 



in P^ OHIBITIOX PAR TY PL A TFORM. 

PENSIONS. 

We are in favor of liberal and equitable pension laws, to the end that those 
lEvho imperiled their lives in the defense of their country, and lost their health, 
or were disabled bj- wounds, and their widows and orphans, shall be justly pro- 
vided for by a grateful country. 

ARRAIGNMENT. 

We arraign 'the party managers in this state as disloyal to the principles and 
unfaithful to the interests of the republican party. We charge that they have 
put the party in Kansas out of harmouy with the national republican party, and 
thereby absolved us from all obligations to longer acknowledge their leadership. 
Lured by the seductive wiles of impractical visionaries, they have committed 
the party to extravagancies and follies, which, unless promptly checked, will 
bankrupt and depopulate the state. 

These things impel us, as the only method which promises success, to sink 
party preference in state politics for the time, and unite with such of our fellow 
citizens of the state as share our convictions, without regard to party, for the 
purpose of correcting the follies into which we have been betrayed, and thus 
preserve the good name and insure the future prosperity of the state. 

REVISION OF STATUTES. 

We believe that too much legislation is a curse, and are in favor of a com- 
plete revision of the Kansas statutes, with a view to the correction of those 
laws which are imperfect, and the elimination of all such as are superfluous and 
unnecessary, or generally not enforced. 

RESERVATIONS. 

Reserving his convictions upon other questions, every true citizen, without re- 
gard to party, can loyally and consistently join with us in the accomplishment 
of these objects. Relying upon the justness of our cause, we invite the co- 
operation of all liberal-minded men throughout the state, and with it the suc- 
cess of the cause of the people will be assured, and a new era of prosperity will 
dawn upon the state. 



PLATFOKM OF THE PEOHIBITION PARTY. 

The prohibition party of Kansas, In delegate convention assembled, recog- 
nizing Almighty God as the rightful sovereign of nations, and from whom all 
just powers of government are derived, and to whose will all human enact- 
ments ought to conform ; and reafl&rming its allegiance to the national prohibi- 
tion party and to its platform, presents the following declaration of principles : 

THE ONLY PROHIBITION PARTY. 

1. We declare our faith in the statutory and constitutional prohibition of the 
traffic in intoxicating beverages both in state and nation. 

We believe this work can be accomplished oiily by a partj^ which is united 
on this issue, and affirm that ours is the only party occupying such position. 
We declare that the old parties are utterly at variance with themselves on this 
issue, and therefore wholly unable to grapple with this great question. 

Congress has shown itself dilatory in relieving the states from the evil effects 
of the recent supreme court decision. 

Our state officials have played fast and loose in regard to enforcing prohib- 
itory law. The frequent and shameful pardoning of convicted liquor sellers by 
our governor, without a semblance of justice or equity, has tended to bring this 
law into contempt. 



PB OHIBITION PAR TY PL A TFORM. yii 

OBJECT OF RESUBMISSION AGITATION. 

tVe declare that the resubmission agitation in Kansas does not come from the 
-people, but has been gotten up by the money of liquor dealers, and that its chief 
aim is to influence the contest in Nebraska. 
he». 
if 
opposed to resubii ission, and to all efforts for a constitutional convention gotten 
up in the interests of resubmission. 

We demand of congress such legislation as will give immediate relief from 
the inundation of our state by original-package saloons. 



And we furthe*. declare that, in so far as it has any vitality at all, it is the 
logical result of thn neglect of the dominant party to enforce the law. We are 
nliss 



OTHER REFORMS. 

While the prohibition party regards the liquor traffic as the overshadowing 
evil of our age, and makes its annihilation the leading issue of the party, it also 
pledges itself to all reforms in the interest of the masses. It declares itself as 
a party of the people, and it invites all reform elements to unite with it in smit- 
ing down corrupt politics, and oppressive liquor, money, land and railroad mo- 
nopolies, and to bring righteousness and prosperity to the republic. 

It makes the following deliverances upon pending reforms: 

WOMAN SUFFRAGE— AUSTRALIAN BALLOT. 

2. We favor amendments to both federal and state constitutions, declaring 
that no citizen shall be denied the right of the ballot on account of sex. 

3. We favor the Australian ballot system of voting. 

4. We favor a reduction of the salaries of public officials, and that such 
salaries shall be based upon the compensation generally awarded to correspond- 
ing unofficial labor, 

ELECTIONS BY DIRECT VOTE. 

5. We favor the election of president, vice president, U. S. senators, rail- 
road commissioners and postmasters by a direct vote of the people. The pres- 
ident should be eligible to but one term of four years. 

6. We demand such legislation as shall make bribery a crime, making the 
person or corporation who offers, and the one who receives the bribe, equally 
guilty and punishable. 

7. We condemn the republican and democratic parties for their insincerity 
in civil reform. Civil service appointments for all civil offices should be based 
upon moral, intellectual and physical qualification and not upon party service 
•or party necessity. 

SERVICE PENSIONS. 

8. We demand a service pension for all of our ex-soldiers who were pris- 
oners during the war, and as liberal service pension for all old soldiers as the 
condition of the treasury will warrant. With passing years, as many of our 
veterans are responding to the roll call above, more and more honor ought to 
be bestowed on the living ones who are fast growing old. 

9. All men should be protected by law in their right to one day of rest in 
seven. • 

10. We favor more stringent laws protecting social purity. 

TRANSPORTATIOt — TRUSTS AND COMBINES. 

< 

11. We demand that the means of communication and transportation shall 
be owned by and operated in the interest of the people, as in the United States 
postal system. 

12. We demand such legislation as will effectually prevent the organization 
or maintenance of trusts and combines, for purposes of speculation in any of 



viii PROHIBITION PARTY PLATFORM. 

the products of labor or necessaries of life, or of the transportation of the same. 

13. We invoke legal prohibition of gambling in futures, in all mechanical 
and agricultural products, and insist on vigorous punishment for all violations 
of the same. 

TAXATION — REDEMPTION. 

14. All property subject to taxation should be listed at its actual value, less 
any bona fide indebtedness of the owner thereof. 

15. We favor such legislation as will give judgment debtors two years' time 
to redeem all real estate sold under execution, and that no mortgaged land shall 
be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraised value of said laud, said terms 
of appraisement having been agreed to by the mortgagor and mortgagee at the 
time the mortgage was made; and that no mortgaged land shall be sold under 
execution at any time unless said appraisement was agreed to in writing. 

GOVERNMENT LOANS — CURRENCY. 

16. We favor national legislation by which the Government shall loan 
money to its citizens on real estate security, at a rate of interest not greater 
than two per cent, per annum for any number of years not exceeding t€n years. 

17. We demand in the interest of "the many" that there shall be an in- 
crease in the currency which shall be full legal tender, and issued by the Gov- 
ernment in suflficieut quantities to do the business of the country on a cash 
system, and to this end we favor the free coinage of silver. 

LIMITATION OF LAND HOLDING. 

18. We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land, and 
that congress take early steps to obtain all lands now owned by aliens and for- 
eign syndicates ; that all lands now held by railroads and other corporations, in 
excess of such as is actually used and needed by them, be reclaimed by the gov- 
ernment and held for actual settlers only. 

We favor the limitation of individual as well as the corporate ownership of 
land. 

RIGHTS OF LABOR. 

19. We favor such legislation as will insure to the laborer a just return for 
his labor, and will check the tendency to divert the wealth of the country from 
the hands of the many into the hands of the few, and will place the employed 
in all respects upon an equality with the employer before the law. We favor 
the protection of American laborers by greatly restricting foreign immigration 
and by wholly excluding the pauper and criminal classes. 

TARIFF. 

20. We accept the doctrine of "equal rights to all and special privileges to 
none," and therefore denounce the present high tariff as an unjust burden upon 
the people, under which oppressive monopolies have been created and are now 
protected, millionaires multiplied, American shipping practically destroyed, and 
our commerce with other countries materially crippled. We demand the re- 
moval of the tariff taxation from the food, clothing and lumber consumed by the 
people, and that the luxuries, instead of the necessaries, of life be made to bear 
the expenses of government. 

We denounce the pending McKinley bill £^ false in principle and certain to 
be mischievous in its effects. 

DEEP HARBOR ON THE GULF. 

21. We demand immediate action of congress to provide for establishing a 
deep-water harbor on the Gulf of Mexico. 



llfm«,S,L2.f. CONGRESS 



021 051 367 A 









•■■ .s 



..--'^.'V-ri 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



021 051 367 fl 



[ 



